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Richard K. Payne Preface Richard K. Payne, with Taigen Dan Leighton Introduction Dale Wright Metaphor and Theory of Cultural Change: In Search of Skillful Means for Understanding Kamakura Buddhism Mark Blum The Sangoku-Mappø Construct: Buddhism, Nationalism, and History in Medieval Japan Fabio Rambelli Materiality and Performativity of Sacred Texts in Medieval Japan Richard K. Payne Awakening and Language: Indic Theories of Language in the Background of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism James Ford Buddhist Ceremonials (Køshiki) and the Ideological Discourse of Established Buddhism in Early Medieval Japan Mark Unno The Body of Time and the Discourse of Precepts Ryuichi Abe Myøe’s Mount Laçkå: Mantra, Landscape, and Medieval Japanese Poetics Jacqueline Stone ’Not Mere Words’: Perspectives on the Language of the Lotus S¥tra in Medieval Japan Taigen Leighton The Lotus Sutra as a Source for Døgen’s Discourse Style Steven Heine Empty-Handed, But Not Empty-Headed: Døgen’s Køan Strategies Eisho Nasu "Rely on the Meaning, Not the Words": Shinran’s Methodology of Reading Scriptures and Strategy of Writing of the Kyøgyøshinshø