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Kukai

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Kukai or Kobo-Daishi , 774-835, Japanese priest, scholar, and artist, founder of the Shingon or "True Word" sect of Buddhism. Of aristocratic birth, he studied the Chinese classics as a young man, but left the university and became a wandering ascetic, eventually making a commitment to Buddhism. He was (804-806) a member of a Japanese embassy to T'ang China, where he studied the Buddhist Tantra . He returned to Japan with many scriptures and art objects and was honored by the emperor. In 816 he founded the Kongobuji monastery on Mt. Koya, S of Kyoto. Kukai is famous as a calligrapher... Read more

Kukai
Kukai Kukai (774-835) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who founded the Shingon sect. This...Tendai sect on Mt. Hiei located to the northeast of the new capital, while Kukai founded the Shingon center on Mt. Koya to the south. Kukai was born on July... Read more

Kukai
...saint and founder of the Shingon school. Born into an aristocratic family, Kukai was given a Confucian education but soon converted to Buddhism . After...the highest stage. He was also a gifted poet, artist, and calligrapher. Kukai Kukai Kukai Read more

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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). ; ...to the ninth century when the Buddhist priest Kukai, later to be canonized as Kobo Daishi, made a...pilgrimages, which at some point after the time of Kukai combined to form the present route. Kukai was the founder of the Shingon Buddhist sect... Read more
	(book review) ; ...study of the pilgrimage circuit around the island of Shikoku (comprising eighty-eight holy sites associated with Kobo Daishi/Kukai, 774-835) during the Edo period. It is not a religious study of the topic--something that Kouame makes plain repeatedly, especially... Read more
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