A Portrait of Daten Gyoja : The Middle Ages with the Laws about Heresy and the Laws about Desire(<Special Feature>Perspectives on the Nanbokucho (the Northern and Southern Dynasties) Period)

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  • 外法と愛法の中世 : [ダ]天行者の肖像(<特集>南北朝の視界)
  • 外法と愛法の中世--咤天行者の肖像
  • ゲホウ ト アイホウ ノ チュウセイ タテン ギョウジャ ノ ショウゾウ

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There has been an increased interest in the Nanbokucho Period (the Period of Northern and Southern Dynasties), since the publication of Igyo no Oken (Sovereignity in Strange Appearance) by Yoshihiko Amino. Especially has there been the tendency to single out the priest Mongan and the school of the Shingon Esoteric Buddhism called Tachikawaryil, branding them respectively as satanic priest and heresy. Such a portrait of Mongan, modelled on the figure of the ascetic monk of the heresy called Dakinitempo, however, was fabricated for the purposes of denigrating him. Behind this were the problems of heterodoxy and sexuality concerning Dakinitempo. In this essay, I will examine, through the reading of the fables in Keiranshuyoshu (Gleanings by Keiran), how the powers of otherness and of sexuality were integrated in the structures of sovereignity in the Middle Ages.

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