Shingon Buddhism
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Shingon Buddhism
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Shingon Shingon is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism. It is sometimes also called Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, or Eastern Esotericism. The word shingon is the Japanese reading of the Chinese word 真言 (zhēnyán), which is the translation of the Sanskrit word mantra. The Zhēnyán lineage was founded in China by Indian vajrācāryas like Śubhakarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra. These esoteric teachings would later flour
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Sect of Japanese Buddhism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingon_Buddhism
date created:
2003-08-08T15:04:49Z
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2024-09-05T12:33:23Z
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