
“This Mind is the Buddha”* — Being Religious (in Japan)
Between immanence and transcendence

Between immanence and transcendence

Introducing a new column on iconography in Japanese…

Rare collection of artifacts from Japanese esoteric…

Whenever I teach Japanese Buddhism, whether in the Americas, Europe, or East Asia, I frequently run into the same assumption among students that Buddhists, for

Japan’s esoteric Buddhist traditions boast a rich and diverse array of imagery, ranging from figures of individual deities to elaborate mandalas depicting specific deity families