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	Shingon Buddhism - Mandala Vermont -
		Shingon is one of the great and venerable Dharma traditions of Japan.
		Founded in the ninth century by the vajrayana master, Kobo Daishi Kukai, Shingon is one of the few surviving schools of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism.
		Rooted in the teachings and traditions of the Mahavairocana and Vajrasekara Sutras, Shingon affirms that tremendous wisdom and limitless compassion are inherent to all of us.
	www.mandalavermont.org /shingon.html (140 words)

	Shingon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This version of Vairocana was held to be within all things, and the goal of Shingon was the realization that one's nature was identical with Vairocana, achieved through contemplation and ritual practices.
		Shingon became one of the principal Buddhist sects of the Heian period, supplanting earlier sects and enjoying more popular support than its great rival, Tendai Buddhism.
		Shingon lost some of its popularity at the end of the Heian era as it grew rich and worldly, and evangelistic movements such as Pure Land Buddhism supplanted it in public affection, but it remains one of Japan's most important sects, at present numbering some 12 million adherents.
	www.compsoc.net /~gemini/simons/historyweb/shingon.html (468 words)

	Shingon and Tendai Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shingon and Tendai Buddhism simultaneously gained influence in Japan during the Heian period (794-1160), when the imperial court flourished in the capital Kyoto, known as Heian 'Peace and Tranquillity').
		Shingon was transmitted to Japan on his return from China by the monk Kukai (774-835), widely known in Japan by his posthumous name of Kobo Daishi.
		Shingon is renowned for the richness of its artistic heritage, based on mandala designs similar in form and colouring to those found in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, to which Shingon and to a lesser extent Tendai are historically related.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/easia/shingon.html (454 words)

	Shingon Buddhism - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Shingon (真言宗) is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and the most important school of Vajrayana Buddhism outside of the Himalayan region.
		Shingon arose in Japan's Heian period (794-1185) when the monk Kukai went to China in 804 where he studied the tantra and returned armed with many texts and art works, and developed his own synthesis of esoteric practice and doctrine, centred on the cosmic Buddha Vairocana.
		One thing that sets Shingon apart from the other surviving schools of esoteric Buddhism in Tibet is the use of calligraphy, instead of pictorial representations, to represent Buddha figures in their mandalas.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php?title=Shingon_Buddhism&redirect=no (776 words)

	Shingon Buddhism
		Shingon enjoyed immense popularity during the Heian Period, particularly among the Heian nobility, and contributed greatly to the art and literature of the time.
		This shrine is styled from the Buzanha sect of Shingon Buddhism.
		One feature that Shingon shares in common with the other surviving schools of esoteric Buddhism in Tibet is the use of seed-syllables or bija (bija) along with anthropomorphic and symbolic representations, to express Buddhist deities in their mandalas.
	libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Shingon.html (1455 words)

	Northern California Koyasan Temple
		In the Shingon tradition, the practitioner uses the same techniques that were used over 1,200 years ago by Kukai, and have been transmitted orally generation after generation to the present.
		Shingon Buddhism grants salvation and enlightenment to human beings who would otherwise be caught in the cycle of birth and death.
		Kobo Daishi (Kukai), the founder of Shingon Buddhism, was born in the town of Zentsuji in Kagawa Prefecture in Japan in 774.
	www.koyasan.org /nckoyasan/introduction.html (1110 words)

	Shingonshū \| Encyclopedia of Religion
		Shingon is an esoteric tradition, meaning that its practices are only to be transmitted by a qualified teacher (Jpn., ajari; Skt., ācārya) to a student who has undergone the appropriate initiations.
		Other key terms that amplify the character of the Shingon tradition include tantra, which originates as a bibliographic category but which is now used as a synonym for the esoteric tradition within Buddhism, and Vajrayāna, which means the thunderbolt vehicle, referring to the speed of attaining full awakening.
		While Shingon is predominantly esoteric in character, an esoteric element is also found in the Tendai tradition.
	www.bookrags.com /research/shingonsh-eorl-12 (403 words)

	SHINGON Articles Shingon (??,??), also called Japane
		Shingon (??,??), also called Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and one of two major sub-schools of Vajrayana Buddhism, the other being Tibetan Buddhism.
		Shingon arose in Japan's Heian period (794-1185) when the monk Kukai went to China in 804 where he studied the tantra and returned armed with many texts and art works, and developed his own synthesis of esoteric practice and doctrine, centred on the universal Buddha Vairocana (or, more accurately, Mahavairocana Tathagata).
		One feature that Shingon shares in common with the other surviving schools of esoteric Buddhism in Tibet is the use of seed-syllables or bija (bija) along with antropomorphic and symbolic representations, to express Buddhist deities in their mandalas.
	www.amazines.com /Shingon_related.html (739 words)

	Shingon (Chen-yen) of BuddhistLinks.org
		Shingon is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and the most important school of Vajrayana Buddhism outside of the Himalayan region.
		Shingon arose in Japan 's Heian period (794 - 1185) when the monk Kukai went to China in 804 where he studied the tantra and returned armed with many texts and art works, and developed his own synthesis of esoteric practice and doctrine, centred on the cosmic Buddha Vairocana.
		Shingon School The Shingon (Tantric) tradition of Mahayana Buddhism arose in India in approximately the 6th century AD, although its roots go back many hundreds of years before that.
	buddhistlinks.org /Shingon.htm (1705 words)

	Kukai (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mysteries of the body apply to various ways of positioning the body in meditation; mysteries of the mind apply to ways of apprehending truth; finally, the mysteries of speech are the true words which were secretly spoken by Buddha.
		In Shingon, these mysteries are passed on in the form of speech (true words) from teacher to student; none of these true words are written down or available to anyone outside this line of transmission (hence the term Esoteric Buddhism).
		Anything that had beauty revealed the truth of the Buddha; as a result, the art of the Hiei monks made the religion profoundly popular at the Heian court and deeply influenced the development of Japanese culture that was being forged at that court.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCJAPAN/KUKAI.HTM (378 words)

	Hawaii Shingon Mission--Featured in the National Register's Celebrate Asian-Pacific Heritage Month Feature - 2003
		As the mother church for the Shingon sect in Hawaii, the Hawaii Shingon Mission on Sheridan Street in Honolulu is one of the most elaborately decorated Buddhist temples in Hawaii.
		Although it was altered in 1978 and a major addition was built in 1992, the roof and its original carvings form the framework of its character and the interior furnishings brought from Japan maintain a major part of its significance.
		Culturally the social history of the Japanese is intertwined in the Buddhist philosophy (which originated in northern India by Prince Siddhartha Gautama, known as Buddha, in 528 BC), and is therefore difficult to segregate the religious aspects from the cultural aspects.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/feature/asia/2003/shingon.htm (666 words)

	Mandala Society and the Shingon Center
		Mandala Society and the Shingon Center of Rijeka, Croatia, are devoted to the dissemination and practice of Buddhist spiritual culture, principally through teachings of the great master and saint Kobo Daishi Kukai, the founder of Japanese Shingon tradition of Esoteric Buddhism.
		President of the Croatian Mandala Society and director of the Shingon Centre in Rijeka is koshi Hokai D. Sobol, a senior student of Acarya Tanaka.
		Shingon proper is in the latter of course.
	www.mandala.hr /society.html (1451 words)

	Encyclopedia of Aikido [SHINGON BUDDHISM]
		Shingon, lit., "True Words." A sect of Mahayana Buddhism introduced into Japan by a monk named Kukai (also, Kobo Daishi, 774-835) who established a monastery in Mt. Koya in Wakayama Prefecture.
		Shingon Buddhism is a mystical teaching that seeks enlightenment during one's lifetime through the cultivation of the three mysteries of Buddhism: Body, Speech and Mind.
		Morihei Ueshiba studied Shingon at the Jizo Temple in TANABE about age seven and is said to have been taught the nine Chinese classics and practices of esoteric Buddhism.
	www.aikidojournal.com /encyclopedia.php?entryID=949 (184 words)

	Shingon School
		The rituals connected with the three secrets are passed orally from teacher to disciple in Shingon; this represents a considerable difference from the schools of Buddhism intended for the general public.
		According to the view of the Shingon school, these esoteric teachings were expounded as absolute truth by Vairochana, the cosmic buddha, and only the initiated can learn to understand them.
		The two mandalas important in Shingon are the garbhadhatu mandala and the vayradhatu mandala.
	manjushri.acumaestro.com /TEACH/jShingon.htm (550 words)

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