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- Shingon (真言宗, Shingon-shū, "True Word/Mantra School") is one of the major schools of Buddhism in ****an and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages...
- Lüzong and Oxhead school) Shingon (Zhenyan) Kōyasan Shingon-shū Shingon Risshu (Syncretized with Risshū) Shingon-shu Buzan-ha Shingon-shū Chizan-ha Shinnyo-en...
- secret teachings) or by the term Shingon (a ****anese rendering of Zhēnyán), which also refers to a specific school of Shingon-shū (真言宗). The term "Esoteric...
- being shingon (which is also used as the proper name for the Shingon sect). According to Alex Wayman and Ryujun Tajima, "Zhenyan" (or "Shingon") means...
- major esoteric Buddhist sects, Shingon and Tendai fought for the hegemony of Togakushi Temple. Eventually the Shingon sect lost the battle. Togakushi...
- million believers, followed by Nichiren Buddhism with 10 million believers, Shingon Buddhism with 5.4 million, Zen Buddhism with 5.3 million, Tendai Buddhism...
- induced their own death by starvation. There is a common suggestion that Shingon school founder ****ai brought this practice from Tang China as part of secret...
- ****anese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. He travelled to China, where he studied Tangmi (Chinese...
- Buddhism, including Shingon. This is: Oṃ Amogha Vairocana Mahāmudrā Maṇipadma Jvala Pravartāya Hūṃ Five syllable mantras (****anese: goji shingon) symbolize how...
- Madhyamaka Yogachara Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism Chinese Esoteric Buddhism Shingon Dzogchen Theravada Navayana Early Buddhist schools Pre-sectarian Buddhism...