Shingon

Japanese monk Kobo Daishi after he returned from Chang'an in the year 804, bringing a tantric Buddhism which he called Shingon (True Word) and which, with its mandalas, its mudras and its Vajrayana thinking, is, not surprisingly, very close to Tibetan Buddhism.

Autumn Sunlight: His Holiness in Japan 2006

Japanese monk Kobo Daishi after he returned from Chang'an in the year 804, bringing a tantric Buddhism which he called Shingon (True Word) and which, with its mandalas, its mudras and its Vajrayana thinking, is, not surprisingly, very close to Tibetan Buddhism.

Autumn Sunlight: His Holiness in Japan 2006

Today it survives as a tradition within [[Tibetan Buddhism]] and in Japanese [[Shingon]] Buddhism.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Gerald Moreno 2008

The sect was called the Shingon (True Word); and the central body was Dainichi (Great Sun), the Spirit of Truth, anterior to Shaka and greater than him.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Behind the camphor tree, again, and not visible from the garden below, stood a temple of the "Shingon" sect, the most mystic of the old esoteric Buddhist forms.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

Shingon has inherited much of the metaphysics of Chinese Mahâyâna thought: e.g., the equation of hosshin and hôkai, traceable to Hua-yen Buddhism; and the equation of the hosshin with the universal Buddha-nature inherent in all beings as their “original enlightenment”, traceable to T™ien-t™ai (Tiantai; Jpn: Tendai) Buddhism.

Laughter 2009

This points to the non-dualistic significance between the two exemplary concepts of Shingon Buddhism: hosshin seppô and sokushinjôbutsu, both of which we shall examine in detail in the following sections.

Laughter 2009

They make the grand claim that Shingon provides the most comprehensive view to truth, the Dharma.

Laughter 2009

The self-made mummies of Japan are people who have earned the respect now shown to them, as they exemplify the teachings of the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.

The Self-Mummified Monks of Japan 2007

The self-made mummies of Japan are people who have earned the respect now shown to them, as they exemplify the teachings of the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007