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Shugendō (修験道, lit. the "Way [of]
Trial [and] Practice", the "Way of Shugen, or Gen-practice") is a
syncretic Esoteric Buddhist religion, a body of ascetic...
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Mokujiki (木食, "eating of trees/wood") is a ****anese
ascetic practice involving abstinence from
cereals and
cooked foods,
replaced by
consuming foods gathered...
- many
orthodox Buddhist traditions. It is, however,
found extensively in
Shugendō, the
ascetic mountain tradition of ****an and Ryōbu Shintō,
which is the...
- weather.
According to Paul Williams, the
sokushinbutsu ascetic practices of
Shugendō were
likely inspired by Kūkai, the
founder of
Shingon Buddhism, who ended...
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backgrounds from
peasants to
emperors would visit the
region while guided by
Shugendō monks. In July 2004, some of the
roads of the
Kumano Kodō and the shrines...
- 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...
- Province. The
peninsula has long been a
sacred place in Buddhism, Shinto, and
Shugendo, and many
people would visit from all over ****an as part of the Kumano...
- with
Shinto elements within Shugendō In 1613
during the Edo period, the
Tokugawa Shogunate issued a
regulation obliging Shugendō temples to
belong to either...
- 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...
- kuji may have
arrived in ****an via Buddhism,
where it
flourished within Shugendō. Here too, each word in the kuji was ****ociated with
Buddhist deities,...
