About Iiyama Kannon

Hase-dera, or Chōkoku-ji (長谷寺) is a Shingon sect Buddhist temple located outside of Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is more popularly known as the Iiyama Kannon (飯山観音), after its primary object of worship.
Hase-dera, or Chōkoku-ji (長谷寺) is a Shingon sect Buddhist temple located outside of Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is more popularly known as the Iiyama Kannon (飯山観音), after its primary object of worship.
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Shingon Buddhism – The Japanese root of Esoteric Buddhism

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Aug
2022
Buddhism, Vajrayāna
Shingon is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asia, originally spread from India to China through traveling monks such as and . Known in Chinese as the Tangmi these esoteric teachings would later flourish in Japan under the auspices of a Buddhist monk named (空海), who traveled to Tang China to acquire and request transmission of the esoteric teachings. .
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