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Shugendō (修験道, lit. the "Way [of]
Trial [and] Practice", the "Way of Shugen, or Gen-practice") is a
highly syncretic Esoteric Buddhist religion, a body...
- Tendai-shu and Shingon-shu) to
create a
unique religion called "
Shugendō".
Shugendō is the
practice of
giving people the
spiritual power of the mountains...
- a ****anese
ascetic and mystic,
traditionally held to be the
founder of
Shugendō, the path of
ascetic training practiced by the gyōja or yamabushi. He was...
- ****anese
mountain ascetic hermits. They are
generally part of the
syncretic shugendō religion,
which includes Tantric Buddhism and Shinto.
Their origins can...
- a
child in
Russia and
started a
training in the ****anese
tradition of
Shugendō in 1940 at the age of eight. He was
promoted to the rank of a Dai Sendatsu...
- with
Shinto elements within Shugendō In 1613
during the Edo period, the
Tokugawa Shogunate issued a
regulation obliging Shugendō temples to
belong to either...
-
backgrounds from
peasants to
emperors would visit the
region while guided by
Shugendō monks. In July 2004, some of the
roads of the
Kumano Kodō and the shrines...
- weather.
According to Paul Williams, the
sokushinbutsu ascetic practices of
Shugendō were
likely inspired by Kūkai, the
founder of
Shingon Buddhism, who ended...
- many
orthodox Buddhist traditions. It is, however,
found extensively in
Shugendō, the
ascetic mountain tradition of ****an and Ryōbu Shintō,
which is the...
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ancient times, the
Shugendō religion flourished in this area, and Sozen-ji Temple [ja]
still retains items ****ociated with Taichō (
shugendō monk). Currently...
