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	Shugendo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Shugendo" literally means "the path of training and testing." It centers on an ascetic, mountain-dwelling lifestyle and incorporates teachings from other eastern philosophies.
		In modern times, shugendo is practiced by the Yoshino Yamabushi of Dewa Sanzan (Tendai sect), Kinpusenji and Ishiyama-dera Shingon sects, but it retains an influence on modern Japanese religion and culture.
		One term, shugenja (修験者), is derived from the term "Shugendo" much as "Buddhist" describes a follower of Buddha or Christian a follower of Christ, though the term centers on an idea as opposed to a person.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shugendo (246 words)

	Shingon Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vajrayana Buddhism is concerned with the ritual and meditative practices leading to enlightenment.
		Esoteric Buddhism holds that it is not ineffable, and that it is readily communicated via esoteric rituals which involve the use of mantras, mudras, and mandalas.
		Esoteric Buddhism is also practised, although to a lesser extent, in the Japanese Tendai School founded at around the same time as the Shingon School in the early 9th century (Heian period) as well as by shugenja, practitioners of shugendo, a form of mountain asceticism, also known as yamabushi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shingon_Buddhism (942 words)

	SHUGENDO
		Shugendo is a crucible whose place is important in the development of Japan.
		The doctrines of shugendo, although they may resemble (for a neophyte) the esoteric doctrines of Buddhism, lack similarity because the rites practiced come from taoism and the worship of various avatars (gongen) which populate the natural Pantheon, contrary to the other schools of traditional Japanese Buddhism.
		Shugendo, as other esoteric schools recognize the 4 great types of mandala: 1) Dai Mandara (Large mandala) where all divinities/practices are represented 2) Sanmaya-mandara (or mandala of Convention) represents the means they choose to utilize : This mandala is built with the representation of the attributes of each one (arc, jewels, sword, arrows, sutra...).
	members.shaw.ca /shugendo/intro.html (4881 words)

	Police Station - Forensic Files
		Buddhism, in particular, is very important to Samurai, as Mirror explained in Kokoro wa Hitotsu, because it gave an outlet, a way, of honoring and understanding and respecting death.
		Shugendo is opened to the populace and the mountain retreats are accesible to the general public.
		Shugendo beliefs are based on a profound respect of the life and vitality of nature.
	www.mnilibrary.envy.nu /PoliceStation/foren_Myst.html (5790 words)

	Yamabushi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These mountain mystics came to be renowned for their magical abilities and occult knowledge, and were sought out as healers or mediums, known as miko.
		Most of these ascetics, in addition to their devotion to shugendo, studied the teachings of the Tendai sect of Buddhism, or the Shingon sect, established by Kobo Daishi in the 8th century.
		Shingon was one of the primary sects of Esoteric Buddhism, according to which enlightenment is found through isolation, and the study and contemplation of oneself, as well as nature, and esoteric images called mandala.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamabushi (871 words)

	Sacred Sites of Japan and Mt Fuji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Shingon Buddhism they may be generally explained as graphically drawn, symbolic representations of the residence of the Buddha, which is simultaneously the fundamental essence and nature of the human heart-mind.
		A blend of pre-Buddhist folk traditions of Sangaku shinko and Shinto, Tantric Buddhism, and Chinese Yin-yang magic and Taoism, Shugendo may be roughly defined as the 'way of mastering magico-ascetic powers by retreat to and practice within the sacred mountains'.
		One of the areas most frequented by the yamabushi, or mountain practitioners, of Shugendo Buddhism were the three sacred mountains of Dewa Sanzan in the Yamagata prefecture of northern Honshu.
	sacredsites.com /asia/japan/introdution_sacred_japan.html (2981 words)

	Shugendo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Japanese the name given the priests of the Shugendo religion breaks down into yama, meaning mountain, and bushi (often translated as warrior), meaning to lie down.
		Shugendo itself is unique to Japan, a blend of Buddhism, Shinto, and animism.
		His battleground was the mountains of Yamagata, and as the founder of "Haguro Shugendo" Hachiko came to be revered as Gokaiso, the "Opener of the Mountains".
	www.kar.telinco.co.uk /shugendo.html (229 words)

	Shingon and Tendai Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tendai Buddhism also took the Lotus Sutra (Hokkekyo, Saddharma-Pundarika-sutra) as a central text and fostered a wide variety of practices including Zen meditation and Pure Land devotional practices.
		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').
		Tendai-trained monks were responsible for all the 'new Buddhisms' (Pure Land, Nichiren and Zen) of the Kamakura period, and the sect retains a substantial presence in mainstream Japanese Buddhism today.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/easia/shingon.html (454 words)

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		With the introduction of Buddhism, the term Shinto began to be applied to the traditional religious practices of the Japanese people.
		This latter practice is closely related to the ritual purification that is central to Japanese Shinto.
		According to scholars, both Tendai and Shingon Buddhism are products of this tradition and their mountain monasteries provided the setting by which monks could attain samadhi.
	www.adrian.edu /~fdetwiler/local/east2/japan01.htm (623 words)

	About Shugendo
		Shugendo was the religion, Yamabushi the practitioners, and the mountains of Japan are where it all transpired.
		Shugendo eventually evolved as a hybridized religion comprised of 'indigenous' Japanese shamanism, Kannabe Shinko, and naturalized attributes of Tantric Buddhism, Religious Taoism, and Confucianism.
		In essence Shugendo came to be a Japanese religion comprised of all religious influences that had reached Japan, and though its no longer practiced it's influence can still be found today in the Shingon and Tendai sects of Buddhism.
	arvigarus.bravehost.com /history_001.htm (1744 words)

	Holy-Mountains-Sacred-Shrines
		In addition to the groups of Shugendo believers who ascend the mountain to perform their rites, local farmers also worship there early in the spring as it is believed that the mountain's god descends to the rice fields in the spring and ensures fertility in the coming year.
		Shugendo emerged in the 12th century as a result of the joining of solitary hermits who had fled Buddhist monasteries to seek magical and medical powers through fasting, meditation and ascetic practices such as standing under cold mountain waterfalls or in snow.
		Shugendo was, until recently, a very secretive group since its beliefs and rituals could only be passed on from master to disciple after a certain level of practice had been achieved.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/holy-mountains-sacred-shrines.html (4880 words)

	Mikkyo - Witchipedia
		Mikkyō, (literally "secret teachings", often translated as "esoteric Buddhism") is a Japanese term that refers to the esoteric Vajrayana practices of the Shingon Buddhist school and the related practices that make up part of the Tendai school.
		Shugendo gave Mikkyo it’s mystical and occult teachings, its universal laws, and the workings of the cosmos.
		Deities in Mikkyo consist of 108 "greater" divine beings (from Shingon Buddhism) and a myriad of "lesser" divine beings or spirits (from Shinto).
	witchipedia.org /index.php?title=Mikkyo (1975 words)

	O-Fudo-Sama in Japan: En no Gyoja and Shugendoo
		Shugendo was at one time a religion of true life and vitality.
		Shugendo practitioners were called Yamabushi, a term which meant 'one who lies down or sleeps in the mountains' and the sect included various types of ascetics such as unofficial monks, wandering holy men, pilgrimage guides, blind musicians, exorcists, hermits and healers.
		This Mikkyo, "secret teaching", form of Buddhism was dependent, in Ku-kai’s mind, on the power inherent when one transcends language and discovers the word spirit of the divine, what might be termed the nuclear seed-sounds of creation.
	fudosama.blogspot.com /2005/01/en-no-gyoja-and-shugendoo.html (2353 words)

	Shingon Buddhism - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		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.
		Esoteric Buddhism holds that it is not ineffable, and that it is communicated via esoteric rituals which involve the use of mantras, mudras, and mandalas.
		Esoteric Buddhism is also practised, although to a lesser extent, in the Tendai School founded at around the same time as the Shingon School in the early 9th century (Heian period) and by Shugenja, practitioners of Shugendo.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Shingon_Buddhism (776 words)

	Northern Earth - Shugendo
		The Japanese Buddhist sect of Shugendo is an old-established sect mingling Buddhist precepts with some shamanistic techniques predating the introduction of Buddhism to Japan in the 6th century.
		Indeed, Shugendo itself was proscribed by the nationalist government, being an unacceptable hybrid of indigenous Japanese religion - in its veneration of sacred mountains and non-Buddhist quasi-shamanistic techniques - and the foreign faith of Buddhism.
		Kizu Yuzuru, of the Japan Shugendo Society, has criticised this ban, which is based on a Buddhist tradition that women are unclean, and insists that it is a case of sexual discrimination.
	www.northernearth.co.uk /76shugendo.htm (1188 words)

	RELIGION, BELIEF AND RITUAL, Japan Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		Buddhism originated in India with a wealthy Hindu prince called Siddhartha Gautama who, dissatisfied with Hinduism's explanation of worldly...
		Shugendo is a colourful blend of Buddhist esoteric and tantric concepts, Chinese Taoist magic and Shinto shamanism.
		Their basic beliefs and practices are generally a mix of Shinto, Buddhism and Confucianism, incorporating...
	www.infohub.com /destinations/Asia/Japan/70655.htm (648 words)

	Japanese Buddhism Photo Dictionary - Terminolgy for Buddha and Other Key Concepts
		This is a term used to refer generally to Shinto as syncretized with Buddhism, and specifically to that syncretic Shinto as interpreted by Shingon Buddhism (see Shingon Shinto), in contrast to Tendai Shinto.
		Because Buddhism and Shinto have coexisted in Japan for hundreds of years, they have had strong influences on each another, even lending each other gods, and altering the way each is practiced.
		He is considered the father of Shugendo, a major syncretic movement dedicated to achieving mystic powers by combining pre-Buddhist mountain worship and ascetic practices with esoteric Buddhist teachings.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/terminology.shtml (2546 words)

	Reiki-4-all Reiki forum -> Shugendo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shugendo is the set of rules that are followed to reach this result, and Shugenja are the adepts of this religion, which is also called Yamabushi no gyôôja or "the practice of sleeping in the mountains" -more commonly Yamabushi.
		Given the suppression of Buddhism, it is not probable that he would have associated himself directly with it.
		Shugendo monks use the conch shell (called The Conch of the Lawor hööra) to announce gatherings, or that work needs to be done, and to signal the arrival or departure of visitors.
	www.reiki-4-all.com /index.php?showtopic=1567 (2260 words)

	Concepts and Organizations
		The study of Shugendo introduces one to a lot of new concepts related to states of mind, body, and spirit.
		Shingon Buddhism is very similar to Tendai Buddhism, as the two developed at roughly the same time in Japan.
		Shugendo -- (J) The shugenja (those who practice Shugendo) of Mt. Yoshino are associated with rigorous energy-channeling exercises in the face of dangerous situations.
	arvigarus.bravehost.com /lexicon_001.htm (4767 words)

	Buddhism \| Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Buddhism originated in India with a wealthy Hindu prince called Siddhartha Gautama who, dissatisfied with Hinduism's explanation of worldly suffering, rejected asceticism as the way to spiritual realization and turned instead to meditation.
		As a result, Buddhism became embroiled in the political struggles of the Nara and Heian eras, when weak emperors used Buddhist and Chinese culture to enhance their own power and level of cultural sophistication, and to reduce the influence of their Shintoist rivals.
		The first two in particular were simple forms of the faith which enabled Buddhism to evolve from a religion of the elite to one which also appealed to the population en masse.
	www.travelingo.org /asia/japan/guide/70660 (781 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Mikkyo discussion - Tendai, Shingon, Shugendo
		In the early stages of Buddhism's adoption into Japan, it was not valued for its religious thought as much as for its magical rituals.
		Sorry, no connection between Shugendo and martial traditions apart from one or two historical personages who may (or may not) have practiced Shugendo or another form of similar shugyo.
		Shugendo is by far more physically demanding though, and I enjoy that.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?act=findpost&pid=196632 (3802 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Shingon and other East Asian Vajrayana
		Non-celibacy in Japanese Buddhism only started (openly) after the Meiji Restoration, and it was due partially to a persecution on Buddhism by the hardcore Shintoists in the Meiji government.
		In Tibetan Buddhism there are also the three inner tantra, mahayoga, anuyoga and atiyoga.
		Otherwise, in Tibetan Buddhism the focus is on the mandalas of Hevajra, Chakrasamvara, Guhyasamaja, Kalacakra, and so on.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=21680&st=60 (2504 words)

	KaDo \| Tales of Healing - a journey into Japanese Shamanism by Maarten Elout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Buddhism was introduced and later taken on as the official state religion, it incorporated much of Shintoism in it's form, thus securing it's position in Japanese culture more firmly.
		Overshadowed and incorporated by Shintoism and Buddhism it now lives on primarily in the tradition of Shugendo [a mix of Buddhism, Shintoism and Taoism], of which the Yamabushi [the mountain ascetics] are the practitioners.
		And while in appearance and dharma Shugendo is specifically Buddhist, some of it's tools and rituals still reveal a lineage and connection to ancient shamanism.
	www.theancientpathoffire.com /articles/tales.html (1839 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Climbing The Mountain
		But the yamabushi who follow the Japanese religion of Shugendo and other pilgrims have been climbing it since the 9th century, drawn by a belief that the two-hour ascent up its rocky trails will help them touch the spiritual world above, while leaving their worldly concerns below.
		Minamoto said her interest in the mountain was stirred by her academic study of Buddhism, which alerted her to what she saw as the religion’s enduring bias against women and its tenets requiring women to be obedient to men.
		There is virtually no sign of sympathy for her crusade in Dorokawa, the one-street town at the base of Mount Omine, where local businesses are wondering if the U.N. designation will usher in a tourist boom.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=7674 (887 words)

	Shingon Buddhism - Karmiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Located in Kyoto, Japan, Daigo-ji is the head temple of the Ono branch of Shingon.
		Shingon (真言;), 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.
		One feature that sets Shingon apart from the other surviving schools of esoteric Buddhism in Tibet is the use of calligraphy, along with more common pictorial representations, to represent Buddha figures in their mandalas.
	www.usedkarma.com /wiki/index.php?title=Shingon_Buddhism (931 words)

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		I've seen him described as a Shugendo (mixing Buddhism, Shinto and Daoism) monk, but he seemed to act more like a Buddhist priest with a willingness to do Shinto when necessary.
		His work was credited with magic powers, but a more realistic power might be that in an age where Christianity was banned and Buddhism mandatory, overt worship was a diplomatically sensible move for any community.
		In the over 300 years since his death, Buddhism has suffered persecutions, and temples have been destroyed; his works were made of wood, and were often slight; the works were not signed; and no one cared until a few decades ago.
	www.japanese-arts.net /sculpture/enku.htm (317 words)

	E-Budo.com - esoteric mikkyo
		Right, there may well be not much interset on esoteric Buddhism here- so anyway you had previously addressed this topic prior to the crash without much interest - so we might as well let this thread close.
		Can you confirm with authoritative sources that Shugendo was in fact outlawed from about 700 C.E. (according to Kojiki Record of Ancient Matters), when it ran into conflict with the government, until about 1600 C.E. when Tokugawa Ieyasu legalized it.
		In regards to your questions concerning Shugendo, I'm not an authority to speak on that subject, althought I've had a bit of training at Shugendo centers.
	www.e-budo.com /forum/printthread.php?t=4806&pp=40 (2198 words)

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