Tendai Marathon Monks

Tendai Marathon Monks

Postby ananda » Wed Aug 10, 2011 2:08 am

I was wondering why do the Tendai monks at Mount Hiei walk over 1000 miles around the mountain ?
What is the purpose behind the walking is it walking meditation to attain samadhi ?

I hope I'm not posting too much. I don't post more than once a day and if I do I try to find a section where I haven't posted previously. Any advice on how often I can post ?
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Re: Tendai Marathon Monks

Postby plwk » Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:14 am

See this
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Re: Tendai Marathon Monks

Postby Jikan » Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:12 pm

Hi ananda,

Keep posting until you run out of questions...
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Re: Tendai Marathon Monks

Postby WuMing » Sun Jan 13, 2013 1:03 am

maybe you want to watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAuEF6Oto8
about the Tendai Kaihōgyō 回峰行 practitioners.
perhaps you'll find an answer there.
法海一味隨機淺深
The sea of Dharma has but a single taste. It seems shallow or profound depending on our own capacities.
- 空海 KUKAI 弘法大師
new translation: Kukai on the Philosophy of Language by Takagi Shingen and Dreitlein Eijo
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