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New Approaches to Psychodrama.
; ...Japanese Shingon Buddhism THE FOUNDER OF THE TRUE WORD (Shingon) Buddhist sect in Japan was Kukai (744-835), later called Kobo Daishi. This esoteric and shamanistic Buddhist sect founded by Kukai on Mt. Koya approximately 1200 years ago demonstrated...
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On being a pilgrim: the centuries-old pilgrimage to the 88 temples of Shikoku entails for walkers a punishing 1,200-kilometer circuit of the Shikoku coastline. Tony McNiCol completed the pilgrimage earlier this year ... (Culture Feature).
; ...Kukai, later to be canonized as Kobo Daishi, made a journey around the island...tsue), a symbolic replacement for Kobo Daishi, in a sense everyone traveling...the nights I spent in my tent, Kobo Daishi slept by my side. I'm not embarrassed...
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The inkblot test: continuing their walk across Japan, Mary King and Shimabukuro Etsuko annoy a monk. (Japan on foot).(Brief Article)
; ...the pilgrimage that is dedicated to the Buddhist saint, Kobo Daishi. Tomorrow, I will walk back into Tokushima-ken (prefecture...perhaps, even slightly worse? KoBo mo fude no ayamari (even Kobo Daishi makes mistakes with his calligraphy brush), I spouted...
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Incredible! Lookout Post has More Free Tickets, this time for "Treasures of a Sacred Mountain: Kukai and Mount Koya," an exhibition being held at the Kyoto National Museum from April 15 to May 25.(Lookout Post)
; ...National Museum from April 15 to May 25. This year marks 1,200 years since Kukai, the Buddhist priest also known as Kobo Daishi and the father of Japanese culture, sailed to Tang-dynasty China, where he studied esoteric Buddhism under Huiguo. In...
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(book review)
; ...Shikoku (comprising eighty-eight holy sites associated with Kobo Daishi/Kukai, 774-835) during the Edo period. It is not a religious...tradition attributes the origins of the Shikoku pilgrimage to Kobo Daishi himself; but scholars propose other ideas, all of them...
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The eighty-eight temples: pilgrimages were among the earliest forms of historical travelling, and they remain popular in many parts of the world. Alex Koller tries Japan's most famous Buddhist pilgrimage.(ANOTHER COUNTRY)
; ...835. He was granted the posthumous title of Kobo Daishi in 921. Stories abound of Kobo Daishi's miraculous intervention to save Shikoku pilgrims...travel to Shikoku to follow in the footsteps of Kobo Daishi, and by the middle of the twelfth century...
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Travel: Around Shikoku in 60 days Not many 'gaijin henro' - non-Japanese pilgrims - visit the 88 temples on the smallest of Japan's four main islands. No wonder David Scott got some strange looks
; ...founder of the Shingon Buddhist sect, Kobo Daishi, (AD774 to AD835). Nowadays, there...on a site originally founded by Kobo Daishi. Many Japanese pilgrims (foreigners...long wooden staff, a symbol of Kobo Daishi himself (carrying one marks out...
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In steps of the Buddha
; ...900-mile trek follows the footsteps of Kobo Daishi, a Shingon Buddhist monk who lived during the 13th century. Kobo Daishi, revered as a saint and scholar...walking sticks, which represent Kobo Daishi's presence on the trek. "The phrase...
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Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku.(Book Review)
; ...to the awkward title, the pilgrims interviewed and cited bespeak human extremity and salvation by the intercession of Kobo Daishi (Kukai, founder of Shingon Buddhism). Investing parts of two decades in the subject does not justify a largely first-pers...
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Honolulu to host first overseas exhibit of "Sacred Treasurers of Mount Koya"
; ...snakes for a bracelet, for example, protects believers as they walk their path to enlightenment. "The gentle statue of Kobo Daishi (the sect's founder in Japan) and the passionate deities with three heads, six arms and four legs ... portray different...
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