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Registers of Reception: Audience and Affiliation in an Early Modern Shingon Ritual Performance
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| Abstract | Performance reception has widened as a category of study in the humanities to include textuality, cognition, and corporeality. These aspects have become vital to considerations of performance, especia...lly in studies of religious transmission. Two complementary Buddhist liturgies, Ceremonial Lecture [on the Merits of] Relic Offerings (Shari kuyo shiki) and Hymn on Relics in Japanese (Shari himitsu wasan), both written by the medieval Shingon monk Kakuban (1095–1143), offer opportunities to contribute to these widening views of reception in ritual contexts. This article argues that doctrinal apprehension emerged in at least two registers during the delivery of these liturgies before varied audiences at the Kyoto temple Chishakuin. It explores their ritual content and performance and shows how alternative modes of reception emerged within the same ritual sequence during the early modern period (1603–1868). While Buddha relics anchored both of these liturgies and maintained a cohesive field of devotion during sequential performances, semantic and rhetorical modulations of their ritual content widened the range of reception. Through examinations of motifs of relic devotion, the pedagogical potential of koshiki commentarial literature, and coincident devotional practices at Chishakuin, this study reveals an array of performative and textual engagements with Kakuban’s works that spanned both lay and clerical communities. Ultimately, this article seeks to blur the scholarly boundaries that tend to divide lay and clerical ritual practice.show more |
| Table of Contents | Introduction Reception and Understanding in Religious Ritual Transmission, Accessibility, and Kakuban's Liturgies Rhetorical Variance Semantic Variance Performance at Chishakuin and Beyond The Shari Koshiki and Clerical Learning Conclusion |
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| Created Date | 2020.04.14 |
| Modified Date | 2024.05.01 |