Shingon (真言宗, Shingon-shū, "True Word / Mantra School") is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages...
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The Shingon-risshū (真言律宗, "The Shingon-Vinaya school") is a comparatively small medieval sect of Buddhism in Japan that arose in the Kamakura period as...
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Vairocana (category Shingon Buddhism)
schools including the Japanese Kegon, Shingon and esoteric lineages of Tendai. In the case of Huayan and Shingon, Vairocana is the central figure. In Chinese...
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Shingon (Burmese: ရှင်ကုန်း [ʃɪ̀ɰ̃ ɡóʊɰ̃]; lit. 'Lady Humpback') is one of 37 nats in the official Burmese pantheon of nats. She was a maid of King Thihathu...
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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...
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Vajrayana (section Shingon Buddhism)
secret teachings) or by the term Shingon (a Japanese rendering of Zhēnyán), which also refers to a specific school of Shingon-shū (真言宗). The term "Esoteric...
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Kūkai (category Shingon Buddhism)
Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. He travelled to China, where he studied Tangmi (Chinese...
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Kōyasan Shingon-shū (高野山真言宗) is a Japanese sect of Shingon Buddhism. Headquartered on Mount Kōya in Wakayama Prefecture, it is also the oldest and largest...
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Sokushinbutsu (category Shingon Buddhism)
induced their own death by starvation. There is a common suggestion that Shingon school founder Kukai brought this practice from Tang China as part of secret...
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Lüzong and Oxhead school) Shingon (Zhenyan) Kōyasan Shingon-shū Shingon Risshu (Syncretized with Risshū) Shingon-shu Buzan-ha Shingon-shū Chizan-ha Shinnyo-en...
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untimely death. In Shingon Buddhism, Amitābha is seen as one of the thirteen Buddhas to whom practitioners can pay homage. Shingon, like Tibetan Buddhism...
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Abhisheka (section Shingon Buddhism)
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...
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Shinshō (真紹) (797–873) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Shingon sect and founder of the Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji in Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). He studied...
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Mount Kōya (category Shingon Buddhism)
sect of Shingon Buddhism. First settled in 819 by the monk Kūkai, Mount Kōya is primarily known as the world headquarters of the Kōyasan Shingon sect of...
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China). He is also one of the Thirteen Buddhas in the Japanese school of Shingon Buddhism. In Tibetan Buddhism, Mahāsthāmaprāpta is equated with Vajrapani...
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million believers, followed by Nichiren Buddhism with 10 million believers, Shingon Buddhism with 5.4 million, Zen Buddhism with 5.3 million, Tendai Buddhism...
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itself derived from Indo-Chinese tantric masters such as Amoghavajra. Shingon focuses almost exclusively on esotericism, while Tendai views exoteric...
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Buzan-ha (真言宗豊山派, Shingon-shū Buzan-ha) is a sect of new school of Shingon Buddhism (新義真言宗 Shingi Shingon-shū) founded in the 16th century by the priest...
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Visualising & Writing Buddhist Mantras Shingon Buddhist International Institute. "Jusan Butsu – The Thirteen Buddhas of the Shingon School". Archived from the original...
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Mandala (section Shingon Buddhism)
Mahayana Buddhism – Shingon Buddhism – makes frequent use of mandalas in its rituals as well, though the actual mandalas differ. When Shingon's founder, Kūkai...
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example is the Mantra of Light (kōmyō shingon), which is common in Japanese Soto Zen and was derived from the Shingon sect. In Chinese Chan, the usage of...
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Hawaii Shingon Mission or Shingon Shu Hawaii (Japanese: 真言宗ハワイ別院, Shingonshu Hawai Betsuin, formerly the Shingon Sect Mission of Hawaii) located at 915...
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Thirteen Buddhas (category Shingon Buddhism)
particularly in the Shingon and Tendai sects of Buddhism. The deities are, in fact, not only Buddhas, but also include bodhisattvas. In Shingon services, lay...
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Madhyamaka Yogachara Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism Chinese Esoteric Buddhism Shingon Dzogchen Theravada Navayana Early Buddhist schools Pre-sectarian Buddhism...
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and Shingon temples. Some temples include Kimpusen-ji in Yoshino (Tendai), Ideha Shrine in the Three Mountains of Dewa and Daigo-ji in Kyoto (Shingon)....
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Mantra of Light (category Shingon Buddhism)
The Mantra of Light (Japanese: kōmyō shingon, 光明眞言, Sanskrit: Prabhāsa-mantra), also called the Mantra of the Light of Great Consecration (Ch: 大灌頂光真言)...
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Gautama Buddha, he is able to purify transgressions. Kūkai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism, met a famous monk who is said to have repeatedly chanted a mantra...
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Womb Realm (category Shingon Buddhism)
Diamond Realm, form the core of Chinese Tangmi and Japanese Tendai and Shingon Buddhist rituals, including abhisheka "initiation". In this ritual, new...
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Chisan-ha (智山派) or Chisan is a Japanese sect of Shingon Buddhism. It is headquartered in Chishaku-in (temple) in Kyoto. Naritasan Shinshōji Temple in...
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They include Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, Japanese Shingon Buddhism and Nepalese Newar Buddhism. Although Southern Esoteric Buddhism...
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