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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...
- 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...
- Lüzong and Oxhead school) Shingon (Zhenyan) Kōyasan Shingon-shū Shingon Risshu (Syncretized with Risshū) Shingon-shu Buzan-ha Shingon-shū Chizan-ha Shinnyo-en...
- particularly in the Shingon and Tendai sects of Buddhism. The deities are, in fact, not only Buddhas, but also include bodhisattvas. In Shingon services, lay...
- 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...
- schools including the ****anese Kegon, Shingon and esoteric lineages of Tendai. In the case of Huayan and Shingon, Vairocana is the central figure. In Chinese...
- 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...
- Shinshō (真紹) (797–873) was a ****anese Buddhist monk of the Shingon sect and founder of the Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji in Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). He studied...
- ****anese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. He travelled to China, where he studied Tangmi (Chinese...
- Traditions ****anese Buddhism ****anese Zen Sōtō school Dogen Rinzai school Eisai Shingon ****ai ****anese Confucianism Fujiwara Seika Hayashi Razan Nakae Tōju Itō...