Sacred Koyasan

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Going to the Mountain

The Celestial Railroad
Outside the Fudo Entrance: The Women's Hall

2. Staying at a Shukubo Temple

Our Midday Arrival
Evening
"A Mind of Rapture": The Morning Sutra Service

3. The Life and Legend of Kobo Daishi (Kukai)

The Early Years
To China's Ch'ang-an and Hui-kuo
Conquest of the Japanese Capital
The Founding of Koyasan
Servant to Emperor and Nation
Kukai's Theory of the Ten Stages
The "Death" of Kukai

4. Twelve Centuries on the Mountain

Abbot Kangen Visits the Tomb-(835-921)
Joyo, Fujiwara Michinaga, and Ex-Emperor Shirakawa-(921-1129)
Koya-hijiri, the Rise of Pure Land Buddhism, and Kakuban-(1073-1143)
Kiyomori-(1150-1186)
The Kamakura Era-(1185-1333)
Under the Ashikaga Shogunate-(1336-1573)
Oda Nobunaga: Koyasan Under Siege-(1571-1582)
Hideyoshi and Koyasan's Wood-Eating Saint-(1582-1603)
Under the Tokugawa-(1603-1867)
Meiji Persecution and the Buddhist Revival-(1867 to the present)

5. Court of the Central Halls

The Great Stupa: Daito
The Golden Hall: Kondo
Hall of the Portrait: Miedo
Shrine of the Mountain Gods: Myojin-sha
Some Other Sights of the Garan

6. Three Mountain Institutions

Kongobu-ji: Headquarters Temple of Koyasan Shingon-shu
Daishi Kyokai Honbu: Headquarters of the Daishi Mission
Reihokan: Museum of Sacred Treasures

7. The Temple Town

8. Educating a Shingon Priest

The Student Years
Advancing in Rank

9. A Pilgrimage through the Forest Cemetery

First Bridge to the Middle Bridge
The Middle Bridge
On to the Third Bridge

10. The Inner Temple and Kobo Daishi's Mausoleum

The Halls Before the Tamagawa
The Jewel River and the Miroku Stone
The Torodo: Lantern Hall
The Gobyo: Kobo Daishi's Mausoleum
Record of a Night's Vigil at the Gobyo
The Morning Fire Offering

11. Kobo Daishi's Birthday Celebration

12. Celebrating Kobo Daishi's Nyujo and the "Changing of the Robe"

Preparing the New Robe at Hoki-in
The Solar Sho-mieku
The Lunar Sho-mieku

13. Annual Rituals for the Dead

Bon: Midsummer Visitation of the Dead
Higan-e: Ceremony of the Other Shore

14. Leaving the Holy Mountain

Notes
Glossary
Sources Cited
Index