The kaihōgyō (回峰行, circling the mountain) is an ascetic practice performed by Tendai Buddhist monks. The practice involves repeatedly walking a route on...

walking is known as the kaihōgyō. A 2010 US National Public Radio report described the sennichi kaihōgyō (thousand-day kaihōgyō) as ...1,000 days of walking...

simple mountain asceticism developed over time, and came to be called kaihōgyō (回峰行). This remains an important part of Tendai Buddhism today. Akaku Daishi...

Tokyo A pilgrim performing kaihōgyō laces waraji over tabi, 1954 The worn-out waraji of monks who have completed the kaihōgyō, 2009 An o-waraji is carried...

time at the monastery. Enryaku-ji is also the center for the practice of kaihōgyō (aka the "marathon monks"). With the support of Emperor Kanmu, the Buddhist...

without stopping. This technique could be compared to that practised by the Kaihōgyō monks of Mount Hiei and by practitioners of Shugendō, Japan. Alexandra...

Kaihōgyō in Japanese (千日回峰行), or “thousand-day around-the-peaks training.” He also completed other ordeals such as a thousand days of Unshin Kaihōgyō...

gold on cotton clothes of Nepal. Detachment (philosophy) Éliane Radigue Kaihōgyō Machig Labdrön Milarepa's Cave Shugendō Quintman 2004, p. 536. Lopez 2010...

(Shippōryū-ji Temple) Contemporary yamabushi Mount Kongo (Kongosanchi) Syugenja Kaihōgyō Mikkyō Milarepa Mount Hatsuka Mount Hiei Mount Ōfuna Mount Ōmine Onmyōdō...

(disambiguation) Tendai Maraton Monks, Japanese monks of Mt. Hiel known for Kaihōgyō, set of the ascetic physical endurance trainings This disambiguation page...

ajari (acarya, a master teacher). The Tendai school's grueling practice of kaihōgyō ends with nine-day period of fasting, which is a total abstention from...

with and studied the Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei Japan who take on the kaihōgyō, a spiritual challenge of endurance in pursuit of enlightenment. The journey...

1467 (ISBN 978-0-7876-9696-2) Catherine Ludvik: In the Service of the Kaihōgyō Practitioners of Mt. Hiei. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 33/1 (pp...

Almond follows a Tendai monk as he engages with the Buddhist process of Kaihōgyō, the feat of physical and mental endurance by which these monks attempt...

partly based on her extensive fieldwork, during which she participated in Kaihōgyō and ascetic life in Japan. Blacker was elected a Fellow of the British...