giki 儀軌

Sk: kalpa. Regulations prescribing Esoteric Buddhist mikkyō 密教 ceremonies, incantations and services, and the iconography and standards to be used to make Buddhist statues and paintings. The documents recording these regulations are also known as giki. Sutras, kyōten 教典, and giki are collectively known as kyōki 経軌. Many giki used in Japan were brought from Tang China in the 9th century by Saichō 最澄 (767-822), *Kūkai 空海 (774-835), and other scholar priests. They were passed down by priests to their disciples, but were not published or widely distributed until the mid-Edo period. The Taishōdaizōgyō 大正台蔵経, a hundred volume work edited from 1924-34 by Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 (1866-1945), contains a large collection of giki as well as sutras and other Buddhist writings.