2020 Volume 69 Pages 17-37
The “Selected Exegesis of the Illuminating Secret Commentary on the Five Chakras and the Nine Syllables” by Ryuyu (1773-1850) is the only exegesis written on “The Illuminating Secret Commentary on the Five Chakras and the Nine Syllables” by Kogyo Daishi Kakuban (1095–1144). The original handwritten manuscript, found in the Chisan Archives (Chishaku-in, Kyoto) on the bottom half of Page 239 of Scroll 1 in the “Texts Stored in the Chisan Repository,” is titled “An Exegesis of the Illuminating Secret Commentary on the Five Chakras and the Nine Syllables.” Published as Volume 5 of the “Collected Treatises of the Chisan School of Shingon Buddhism,” it includes five scrolls and five books.
This study has contributed to the “Memoirs of Taisho University,” with the initial entry (No. 1 of Volume 85, March 2000) appearing as the “Selected Exegesis of the Illuminating Secret Commentary on the Five Chakras and the Nine Syllables.” To date, approximately three-fifths of the work has been released. Moreover, the compilation titled “Volume 1 of Research on the ‘Selected Exegesis of the Illuminating Secret Commentary on the Five Chakras and the Nine Syllables’ by Ryuyu” has been published as Series 12 of “Buddhist Cultural Theory” (Kawasaki Daishi Research Center, 2017); the present study is Volume 2 of the same title.
