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| | Honzon Mondo Sho |
 | | In 821, Jikaku-daishi traveled to China, and during the reign of Emperor Esho of China he mastered the esoteric and exoteric teachings of the two sects under the tutorship of several virtuous high priests of the Tendai Sect and the Shingon Sect, namely, Hozen, Genjo, Gishin, Hogetsu, Shuei and Shion. |
 | | From Emperors down to people in general, everybody was under the impression that the Shingon teaching and the Lotus Sutra were as different as light from darkness. |
 | | His efforts were, however, far from being rewarded; the Emperor Antoku was drowned to death in the sea of Danno Ura, the channel between the Kyushu Island and the Mainland, and Bishop Myoun of the Enryakuji Temple was killed by Kiso (Minamoto) Yoshinaka, the commander in chief of an expeditionary force against the Heikes. |
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