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- Shingon (真言宗, Shingon-shū, "True Word/Mantra School") is one of the major schools of Buddhism in ****an and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages...
- The Shingon-risshū (真言律宗, "The Shingon-Vinaya school") is a comparatively small medieval sect of Buddhism in ****an that arose in the Kamakura period as...
- secret teachings) or by the term Shingon (a ****anese rendering of Zhēnyán), which also refers to a specific school of Shingon-shū (真言宗). The term "Esoteric...
- Shinshō (真紹) (797–873) was a ****anese Buddhist monk of the Shingon sect and founder of the Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji in Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). He studied...
- being shingon (which is also used as the proper name for the Shingon sect). According to Alex Wayman and Ryujun Tajima, "Zhenyan" (or "Shingon") means...
- Lüzong and Oxhead school) Shingon (Zhenyan) Kōyasan Shingon-shū Shingon Risshu (Syncretized with Risshū) Shingon-shu Buzan-ha Shingon-shū Chizan-ha Shinnyo-en...
- ****anese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. He travelled to China, where he studied Tangmi (Chinese...
- million believers, followed by Nichiren Buddhism with 10 million believers, Shingon Buddhism with 5.4 million, Zen Buddhism with 5.3 million, Tendai Buddhism...
- Buddhism, including Shingon. This is: Oṃ Amogha Vairocana Mahāmudrā Maṇipadma Jvala Pravartāya Hūṃ Five syllable mantras (****anese: goji shingon) symbolize how...
- present in Tibetan Buddhism as well as in Chinese Esoteric Buddhism and in Shingon Buddhism. The abhiṣeka was originally used as a consecration rite. Water...