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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)
; ...time for Treasures of a Sacred Mountain: Kukai and Mount Koya, an exhibition being held...May 25. This year marks 1,200 years since Kukai, the Buddhist priest also known as Kobo...esoteric Buddhism under Huiguo. In 819 Kukai initiated construction of a monastic center...
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New Approaches to Psychodrama.
; ...WORD (Shingon) Buddhist sect in Japan was Kukai (744-835), later called Kobo Daishi. This...and shamanistic Buddhist sect founded by Kukai on Mt. Koya approximately 1200 years ago...processes, and emotional intelligence. Kukai integrated Shinto and Buddhist beliefs...
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NATIONAL COLLEGIATE TENNIS CLASSIC: SURPRISING KUKAL TO PLAY IN TOURNAMENT FINAL.(SPORTS)
; ...USC teammates and presumably not the National Collegiate Tennis Classic officials, who spelled his name wrong in the program: Kukai. USC coach Dick Leach also has seen it misspelled ``Kuekl.'' Today, USC tennis fans should know this sophomore from Slovakia...
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(book reviews)
; ...the time, and some key features of the philosophy of the first major figure to emerge in the japanese philosophical tradition: Kukai. In the first paragraph of the book, the author characterizes the perspective from which he has approached his subject: Without...
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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)
; ...people. At the end of the eighth century, Kukai (774-835) and Saicho (767-822) started...proved appealing to the common people. Kukai talked of 'Enlightenment in Ibis very nature...extensive pantheon of esoteric Buddhism. Kukai is the central hero of the Shikoku pilgrimage...
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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...
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(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...
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Blisters for Buddha; Japanese pilgrims keep 1,000-year tradition alive - with or without religion
; ...millennium. The circuit links temples associated with the monk Kukai, also known as Kobo Daishi, who founded the Shingon sect of...he attained enlightenment on the southern coast of Shikoku. Kukai's main message was that enlightenment is possible on earth through...
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Scientists studying the effect of religious experiences on the brain.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
; ...who? Is it any wonder that religion feels more at home with poetry than science? In his poem about enlightenment, the Zen poet Kukai speaks of the ``singing image of fire.'' The Christian mystic Angelus Silesius writes of the ``pure no-thing, concealed in now...
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Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku.(Book Review)
; ...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-person account...
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