YAMABUSHI
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"I have made a heap of all that I have met"- Svetonious
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"I have made a heap of all that I have met"- Svetonious
Mountain Monks
The Yamabushi in northern Japan practice a once forbidden ancient religion. While their tradition is at risk of disappearing, it offers a way for those seeking a different path in Japan‘s society.
Walking barefoot through rivers, meditating under waterfalls and spending the nights on mountaintops - that is the way of the Yamabushi. They walk into the forest to die and be born again.
Their teachings of Shugendō 修験道 were first established 1400 years ago and peaked in popularity during the 17th century, when Yamabushi visited around 90 percent of all villages in northern Japan. The monks were said to have magical powers and served as advisors to samurai and warlords.
In the late 19th century, when Japan opened itself to the west and moved from a feudal state towards industrialization, their religion was forbidden. Only the monks of Yamagata prefecture in northern Japan practiced the tradition in secret. Their isolation near the three holy mountains of Dewa helped them to save their customs.
Today, their religion is not forbidden anymore, but there aren't many left who practice it either. Some schools have opened their doors to allow women and foreigners. They offer private courses to help maintain their sacred places: https://www.yamabushido.jp/
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Journeys in Japan: Dewa Sanzan, Yamagata-Part 2
上徳寺に山伏の祭り Yamabushi Festival in the Jotokuji, Kyoto
Shugendo - The Way of Power
Sangakurin Temple Fire Ceremony
Yamabushi Warriors at the Archery Contest
https://vimeo.com/kyotodreamtrips/yamabushi
Shugendō Mountain
上徳寺に山伏の祭り Yamabushi Festival in the Jotokuji, Kyoto
Shugendo - The Way of Power
Sangakurin Temple Fire Ceremony
Yamabushi Warriors at the Archery Contest
https://vimeo.com/kyotodreamtrips/yamabushi
Shugendō Mountain
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nice. I'll set aside some time to go thru these
"I have made a heap of all that I have met"- Svetonious
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"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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Journeys in Japan: Dewa Sanzan
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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Nyedrag Yeshe
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This is Nichiren Yamabushi mountain training. Focusing on the Goddess Shichimen Daimyojin, who protects the Lotus Sutra.
“Whatever has to happen, let it happen!”
“Whatever the situation is, it’s fine!”
“I really don’t need anything!
~Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje (1161-1211)
ओं पद्मोष्णीष विमले हूँ फट । ओं हनुफशभरहृदय स्वाहा॥
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔ ཀརྨ་པ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
“Whatever the situation is, it’s fine!”
“I really don’t need anything!
~Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje (1161-1211)
ओं पद्मोष्णीष विमले हूँ फट । ओं हनुफशभरहृदय स्वाहा॥
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔ ཀརྨ་པ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
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Nyedrag Yeshe
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The Deities of Ishizuchi Shrine are credited with saving a whole town from a severe drought here in Brazil. There is a Shrine and some yamabushi related to this shrine here!crazy-man wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 3:30 am Journeys in Japan: Dewa Sanzan, Yamagata-Part 2
上徳寺に山伏の祭り Yamabushi Festival in the Jotokuji, Kyoto
Shugendo - The Way of Power
Sangakurin Temple Fire Ceremony
Yamabushi Warriors at the Archery Contest
https://vimeo.com/kyotodreamtrips/yamabushi
Shugendō Mountain
“Whatever has to happen, let it happen!”
“Whatever the situation is, it’s fine!”
“I really don’t need anything!
~Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje (1161-1211)
ओं पद्मोष्णीष विमले हूँ फट । ओं हनुफशभरहृदय स्वाहा॥
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔ ཀརྨ་པ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
“Whatever the situation is, it’s fine!”
“I really don’t need anything!
~Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje (1161-1211)
ओं पद्मोष्णीष विमले हूँ फट । ओं हनुफशभरहृदय स्वाहा॥
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔ ཀརྨ་པ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
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Wow. Interesting.Nyedrag Yeshe wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 8:57 pm The Deities of Ishizuchi Shrine are credited with saving a whole town from a severe drought here in Brazil. There is a Shrine and some yamabushi related to this shrine here!
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,