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This is way out of my depth! I've been studying and practicing Buddhism for over forty years... but not so much in Japanese traditions, and this book is a serious deep dive! The central focus here is how the Nichiren sect emerged from the Tendai sect. Certainly Nichiren broke away from the establishment. But the relationships were complicated. The break was not especially doctrinal, nor even practical. It was more social or institutional. The doctrinal divisions that developed in the early days of the Nichiren sect were not especially different from the divisions within Tendai sects, or between Nichiren and Tendai.

Even though this book is really target to religious scholars, to folks who really know the different eras of Japanese history, century by century.. even though I am no such scholar at all... Stone provides enough background and guidance that I was never utterly lost. I am sure I missed a lot of nuance. But I learned a lot, too! Stone gives some good quick overviews of key history, e.g. of Nichiren's life. This was extremely useful for me!

There is an awful lot of Japanese terminology here, especially names of doctrinal positions. But the terms are all given in Romanized transliteration, so my utter lack of Kanji and Hiragana was no impediment at all.

Stone also covers a lot of modern scholarship, the different views on the relationship between the Nichiren and Tendai schools. This is all utterly new territory for me, so... it was a good sort of jumping into the deep end! But I cannot comment on the adequacy of Stone's characterizations.
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Original enlightenment thought (hongaku shiso) dominated Buddhist intellectual circles throughout Japan's medieval period. Enlightenment, this discourse claims, is neither a goal to be achieved nor a potential to be realized but the true status of all things. Every animate and inanimate object manifests the primordially enlightened Buddha just as it is. Seen in its true aspect, every activity of daily life--eating, sleeping, even one's deluded thinking--is the Buddha's conduct. Emerging from within the powerful Tendai School, ideas of original enlightenment were appropriated by a number of Buddhist traditions and influenced nascent theories about the kami (local deities) as well as medieval aesthetics and the literary and performing arts.

Scholars and commentators have long recognized the historical importance of original enlightenment thought but differ heatedly over how it is to be understood. Some tout it as the pinnacle of the Buddhist philosophy of absolute non-dualism. Others claim to find in it the paradigmatic expression of a timeless Japanese spirituality. According other readings, it represents a dangerous anti-nomianism that undermined observance of moral precepts, precipitated a decline in Buddhist scholarship, and denied the need for religious discipline. Still others denounce it as an authoritarian ideology that, by sacralizing the given order, has in effect legitimized hierarchy and discriminative social practices. Often the acceptance or rejection of original enlightenment thought is seen as the fault line along which traditional Buddhist institutions are to be differentiated from the new Buddhist movements (Zen, Pure Land, and Nichiren) that arose during Japan's medieval period.
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