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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 religion, a body of
ascetic practices...
- 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...
- 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...
- weather.
According to Paul Williams, the
sokushinbutsu ascetic practices of
Shugendō were
likely inspired by Kūkai, the
founder of
Shingon Buddhism, who ended...
- with
Shinto elements within Shugendō In 1613
during the Edo period, the
Tokugawa Shogunate issued a
regulation obliging Shugendō temples to
belong to either...
- ****anese
mountain ascetic hermits. They are
generally part of the
syncretic shugendō religion,
which includes Tantric Buddhism and Shinto.
Their origins can...
- many
orthodox Buddhist traditions. It is, however,
found extensively in
Shugendō, the
ascetic mountain tradition of ****an and Ryōbu Shintō,
which is the...
- base of
Mount Ōmine, also
known as
Mount Sanjō, the
headquarters of the
Shugendō religion.
Dorogawa Hot
Springs Mitarai Valley Mount Ōmine
Ryusenji Temple...
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manner as the
religion of Shintō,
Shugendō is
largely relegated to ****an. The lay
practitioners and
monks of
Shugendō,
called Shugenja or
yamabushi respectively...
- and
mountains are also
sites for the
practice of the
syncretic Shugendō tradition.
Shugendō is a
mountain ascetic practice which also
adopted Tendai and...
