「灰の中の宝石」とは、副題にもあるとおり、「仏舎利」のこと。日本中世の舎利信仰について論じたのが本書なのですが、その「舎利」の扱い方が、私の想像とはまったく違っていました。
日本の舎利信仰に対する私のイメージが達磨宗の「六祖普賢舎利」を中心としたものであり、極めて偏狭なものだったのがその一因。だから最初は、政治経済と舎利との結びつきがどうしても理解できませんでした。
しかし、フォール先生の解説をうかがってその疑問も瓦解。この本は、宗派の正当性の主張としての「高僧舎利(含む仏舎利)」ではなく、奈良の大仏に匹敵する「国の要」としての、「仏舎利」とその受容形態について論じたものだったのでありました。
専門外ということもあって、論旨の独自性などの詳細についてはコメント不可能ですが、とにかく詳細な論説には驚かされました。とくにグロッサリーがものすごい。ほとんど辞書並です。
もちろん、個人的には、舎利信仰を権力者の側からのみ論じすぎている印象がありましたが、少なくとも、その逆の民間信仰や宗派意識下の「舎利信仰」のみを意識していた私にとって、再度「舎利」の位置づけを考え直す契機となりそうです。
Table of Contents
1. Indtoducrion:
Buddha Relics, Exchange, and the Vadlue of Death.
Locating Buddha Relics in
History / The Logic of Relic Veneration and Dstribution / Method
and Agenda
2. The Continental
Context: Bhdda Relics in Idia and China
The Buddha's Sacrifice and
the Paradigmatic Action of Asoka / The Bodhisattva and the Later
Proliferation of Buddha Relics / Reliquaries in China: The East
Asia Precedent / Relic Assemblages in the Buddhist Economy: Exchange,
Debt, and the Power of Relics
3. Buddha Relics
as Imperial Treasure: Ichidai ichido buddhari hoken (一代一度仏舎利奉献)
Treasure in Early Japan /
The Great Treasures Offering / Buddha Relics in Early Japan /
The Buddha Relics Offering / Debts of a New Order
4. Buddha Relics
as Esoteric Treasures: The Latter Seven-Day Rite and the Inventory
of Buddha Relics
Latter Seven-Day Rite / Relics
as Wealth in the Latter Seven-Day Rite(後七日御修法) / Relics as Wealth
in Inventories and Distribution / Buddha Relics as Esoteric Treasure
and Sacred Commodities
5. Buddha Relics
as Objects of Contention: Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Worship and the
Genealogy of Relic Theft
Wish-Fulfilling Jewels in
the Late Heian Era / Relics and Wish-Fulfilling Jewels Among
Lay Buddhists / The Organization of Issai sharira shu(一切舎利羅宗)
and the Value of Relics / The Genealogy of Relic Theft / Chogen
and the Revaluation of Relics / Buddha Relics, Shingon, and the
Value of the Object
6. Lineage and
Gender in the Economy of Relics
Gender in Relic Worship of
the Mid-Heian Era / Written Records of women, Jewels, and Relics
/ Women, Jewels, and Relics in Later Historical Sources / Gender
in Buddha Relic Worship of the Late Heian and Kamakura Eras /
Lineage, Buddha Relics, and the Valorization of the Femail Dead
/ Women and tghe Degendering of Buddha Relics
7. Rebirth of
the Warrior-Kings: Samurai Society and the Powers of Buddha Relics
Worriors and Relic Ptronage
in the Late Heian and Early Kamakura Eras / The Faith of Warriors
and the Consolidation of Shogunal Auithority / Stupas of the
Buddha's Favor (Risho-to) and the Rebirth of the Warrior-King
/ Relics and the Birth of Warrior-King Rule
8. Conclusion:
Bujddha Relics and the Ritual Economy in Early Medieval Japan
Power and the Powers of Buddha
Relics in Early Medieval Japan / Buddha Relics, Gender, and the
Genealogy of Exchange
Appendixes
A. Scripture of the Golden-Wheel Dharani
King's Secret Transformation into a Buddha in This Body Though
Turning the Wheel of the Wish-Fulfilling Jewel
B. Excerpts from the "Relics"("Shari")
and "Additional Teachings on Jewels"("Hoju yu
setsu") Chapters of Kakuzen's Notes (Kakuzen sho)
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