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Mikao Usui (臼井甕男, 15 August 1865 – 9 March 1926, commonly Usui Mikao in Japanese) was the father of a form of energy medicine and spiritual practice known as Reiki, [1]: 108–10 [2][3][4][5][6] used as an alternative therapy for the treatment of physical, emotional, and mental diseases. According to the inscription on his memorial ...
Zenshū Shiburoku. The Zenshū Shiburoku, The Four Texts of the Zen Sect, is a collection of four essential Zen texts which are being used in Japan as introductory texts in the education of novice Zen monks. The collection consists of the Jūgyūzu (Ten Oxherding Pictures), the Shinjinmei (Faith in mind), attributed to the third Chinese Chán ...
Reiki (/ ˈ r eɪ k i / RAY-kee; Japanese: 霊気) is a pseudoscientific form of energy healing, a type of alternative medicine originating in Japan. [1] Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which, according to practitioners, a " universal energy " is transferred through the palms of the ...
t. e. Shingon (真言宗, Shingon-shū, "True Word / Mantra School") is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism. It is sometimes also called Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, or Eastern Esotericism (Dōngmì, 東密). The word shingon is the Japanese reading of the Chinese ...
12) Antoninus of Florence (1439) enumerates ten precepts of the Church universally binding on the faithful. These are: [5] to observe certain feasts. to keep the prescribed fasts. to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days. to confess once a year. to receive Holy Communion during paschal time. to pay tithes.
Rōshi (老師) (Japanese: "old teacher"; "old master") is a title in Zen Buddhism with different usages depending on sect and country. In Rinzai Zen, the term is reserved only for individuals who have received inka shōmei, meaning they have completed the entire kōan curriculum; this amounts to a total of fewer than 100 people at any given time.
Hakuin was born in 1686 in the small village of Hara, [web 2] at the foot of Mount Fuji.His mother was a devout Nichiren Buddhist, and it is likely that her piety was a major influence on his decision to become a Buddhist monk.
The Bodhisattva Precepts (Skt. bodhisattva-śīla, traditional Chinese: 菩薩戒; ; pinyin: Púsà Jiè, Japanese: bosatsukai) are a set of ethical trainings (śīla) used in Mahāyāna Buddhism to advance a practitioner along the path to becoming a bodhisattva. Traditionally, monastics observed the basic moral code in Buddhism, the ...