The Structure of “Jishōe” 自性会 and “Kaji sekai” 加持世界 in the Shingi-Shingon School: Shōken’s 聖憲 <i>Daisho hyakujō daisanjū </i>大疏百条第三重

Abstract

The major feature of the Shingi-Shingon 新義 School is the “Kajishin-setsu” 加持身説, the idea of the empowered responsive body. It is the doctrine that the preacher of Esoteric Buddhism, described in the Mahāvairocana Sūtra, is the empowered manifestation “kajishin (adhiṣṭhānakāya)” of the “Jishōshin (自性身, dharmakāya)”. While there are many critical studies that examine who the preacher of Esoteric Buddhism is, much remains unclear in the details.