Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Conventions and Abbreviations
1. Introducing the Precepts and Outlining the Chapters of This Book
2. The Brahma's Net Sutra Precepts
3. Annen's Interpretation of the Tendai Ordination: Its Background and Later Influence
4. Annen, Tankei, HenjM, and Monastic Discipline in the Tendai School: The Background of Annen's Futskju Bosatsukai KMshaku (Extensive commentary on the universal bodhisattva precept ordination)
5. Japanese Tendai Perfect-Sudden Precepts and the Vinaya
6. The Role of Confession in Chinese and Japanese Tiantai/Tendai Bodhisattva Ordinations
7. The Lotus Sutra and the Perfect-Sudden Precepts
8. KMen and the Consecrated Ordination
9. Ritually Embodying the Lotus Sutra: An Interpretation of the Consecrated Ordination in the Kurodani Lineage
10. Training through Debates in Medieval Tendai and Seizan-ha Temples
11. JitsudM Ninkk on Ordinations
12. Doctrinal Discussions of Killing in Medieval Tendai Texts
13. Can the Precepts Be Lost? Can the Precepts Be Violated? The Role of the Record of the Meaning of the Bodhisattva Precepts in Medieval Tendai Discourse
14. Summing Up the Medieval Tendai Precepts and Tracing Those Themes to the Modern Period
Afterword
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author