About Shingon Risshu

The Shingon-risshū is a comparatively small medieval sect of Buddhism in Japan that arose in the Kamakura period as an offshoot of Shingon Buddhism. Its founder was a monk named Eison, a disciple of Jōkei, and carried further by Eison's disciple Ninshō.
The Shingon-risshū is a comparatively small medieval sect of Buddhism in Japan that arose in the Kamakura period as an offshoot of Shingon Buddhism. Its founder was a monk named Eison, a disciple of Jōkei, and carried further by Eison's disciple Ninshō.
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Shingon Buddhism – The Japanese root of Esoteric Buddhism

21
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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