Womb World Mandala (Taizōkai mandara) - Reflections of the Buddha

Womb World Mandala (Taizōkai Mandala) 10
M. Brauen, The Mandala, Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism. London: Serindia Press (1997).
Richard Bowring, “Preparing for the Pure Land in Late Tenth-Century Japan”, in Japanese Journal of
Religious Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3/4 (Fall, 1998), pp. 221-257.
David Gardiner, “Mandala, Mandala on the Wall: Variations of Usage in the Shingon School”, in Journal
of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 19, 2 (1996), pp. 245 - 279.
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press (1999).
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, “Rebirth of an Icon: The Taima Mandala in Medieval Japan”, in Archives of
Asian Art, Vol. 36 (1983), pp. 59-87.
Yoshito Hakeda, Kukai: Major Works Translated, with an Account of His Life and a Study of his Thought.
New York: Columbia University Press (1972).
Joseph M. Kitagawa, "Master and Savior," in Nakano Gishō (ed.) Studies of Esoteric Buddhism and
Tantrism. Kyoto: Naigai Press (1965), pp. 1-26.
Joseph M. Kitagawa, Religion in Japanese History. New York: Columbia University Press (1966).
Minoru Kiyota, “Shingon Mikkyō Mandala”, in History of Religions, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Aug., 1968), pp. 31-59.
Peter Knecht, “Ise sankei mandara and the Image of the Pure Land”, in Japanese Journal of Religious
Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, Varieties of Pure Land Experience (2006), pp. 223-248.
Yukio Lippit and Anne Rose Kitagawa, Marks of Enlightenment, Traces of Devotion: Japanese Calligraphy
and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection. Harvard University Art Museum
Gallery Series, No. 44, Cambridge, MA (2004).
Shunshō Manabe, “Meaning of the Esoteric Mandalas in Japan”, in Moritake Matsumoto, ed.,
Proceedings of the Itobei Ohira Memorial Conference on Japanese Studies. Vancouver: Institute of Asian
Research, University of British Columbia (1984).
Miyeko Murase and Masako Watanabe, The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the
Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection. New York (2002) pp. 76 - 83.
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Reflections of the Buddha