#kukai — Public Fediverse posts
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A hall linked to Buddhist saint Kukai on the island of Miyajima burned to the ground on Wednesday, local police and firefighters in the city of Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/20/japan/miyajima-island-sacred-hall-fire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #miyajima #kukai #temples
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No-one is quite sure when or why Daimonji was created.
It is possible that Kūkai inspired a later, permanent fixture, by ending a plague 808 with bonfires arranged in the shape '大'.
He built these on the charred ruins of Jōdō-ji, where Amida had been seen rising from the flames.
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🌀 Explore the Mystical Path of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism 🌀
Discover the profound teachings of Kukai, the mesmerizing rituals of Ajikan meditation and the Goma fire ceremony, and the transformative journey towards attaining Buddhahood within one's own life.
sacred mantras and mudras.
✨ This video offers a concise guide through Shingon's mystical and ritualistic intricacies.
🔗 https://youtu.be/Sw3Ru7T7aPk?si=K8R6Rp_cOH3CLJ3G
#Shingon #Meditation #Enlightenment #Kukai #MountKoya #Buddhism #Esotericism -
The Kashihara shrine (橿原神宮) area of Nara is a cradle of Japanese civilization formerly known as Yamato. I especially didn't want to miss the archaeological museum, so a couple of its treasures are included here. The shrine is dedicated to the legendary first Emperor Jimmu (神武天皇). The Buddhist temple Kumedera (久米寺) near Kashihara Jingū is a Shingon temple, but it predates the founder Kūkai. It was where Kūkai found the indecipherable Mahāvairocana Sūtra (大日経) that justified his precious voyage to Chang'an, as I alluded recently in the journal paper "Translation Issues in the Rapid Transmission of Esoteric Buddhism from India to China to Japan" at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371965557
See more details in the photo captions.
#Japan #religion #religions #Shinto #Shintoism #Buddhism #Kukai #Nara #archaeology
@religion @histodons @mythology
Bookmark publications on Japan and Asian Studies: https://japanned.hcommons.org/japanology
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World Heritage temple #Daikakuji in Saga-Arashiyama in northwest #Kyoto. The #temple and its pond were the palace grounds of #Emperor #Saga, who, like the T'ang Dynasty Emperors in the early 9th Century (a time of far higher #culture than today), was a pious patron of Buddhism, and of the great saint Kūkai who contributed so much to the golden age of #Heian Period Japan. My forthcoming paper related to #Kukai was by request of a university in Himachal Pradesh. Meanwhile, my research on #Kukai, #Esoteric #Buddhism, #Asian #religions, #religious #syncretism, and other topics about #Japan is available at https://japanned.hcommons.org/japanology or https://wilmina.academia.edu/SteveMcCarty/Japan
#Japanese #Religion #History
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Have you heard of #PechaKucha #presentation meetings? Wikipedia: "a #storytelling format in which a presenter shows 20 slides for 20 seconds of commentary each," from the #Japanese word for chatter. Notice also the #narrative #genre of the following book:
NEW PechaKucha Presentation: A Passion for Japan: A Collection of Personal Narratives (a slide and brief description for each of the 30 chapters, by the editor) at https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/a-passion-for-japan-a-collection-of-personal-narratives
Search "A Passion for Japan" to order the #book on Amazon.
My chapter "Discovering Japanese Fusion of #Religions on the #Pilgrimage Island of #Shikoku" is free at research repositories https://www.academia.edu/82383623 or https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361566172
It is a #research #memoir but it also tells the #story of my life in relation to #Japan. These photos in the slide are from when I was a young researcher.
#Religion #Buddhism #AsianReligions #AsianStudies #syncretism #Kompira #Zentsuji #Kukai #JapaneseBuddhism #Shinto @religion
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In the popular new book A Passion for Japan: A Collection of Personal Narratives, 30 authors provide inside perspectives on living in Japan. My chapter "Discovering Japanese Fusion of Religions on the Pilgrimage Island of Shikoku" is free at the research repositories https://www.academia.edu/82383623 or https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361566172
My translation of the chapter into Japanese (和訳): 「巡礼の島・四国で発見した日本の宗教融合」 (corrected by a native speaking university teacher in Kyoto) is free to download from https://works.hcommons.org/records/zjfkj-gy504/files/discovering_ja.pdf
#Japan #Japanese #Religion #Religions #syncretism #AsianStudies #AsianReligions
#Pilgrimage, #Shikoku #Kompira #Zentsuji #Kukai #JapaneseBuddhism, #Shinto
