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Sōhei (僧兵, "monk soldiers", "warrior monks"[1]) were Buddhist warrior monks of both classical and feudal Japan. At certain points in history, they held considerable power, obliging the imperial and military governments to collaborate. The prominence of the sōhei rose in parallel with the ascendancy of the Tendai school's influence between ...
Komusō A Buddhist monk begging as a komusō Sketch of a komusō (right) The komusō were characterized in the public imagination of Japan by their playing of solo pieces, honkyoku ("fundamental pieces"), on the shakuhachi (a type of bamboo flute ), a practice known today as suizen , while wearing a large woven basket hat or tengai ( 天蓋 ...
Shingon Buddhism (真言宗, Shingon-shū) is a branch of the Vajrayana Buddhism introduced to Japan by Kūkai in 816, who traveled to China and studied the Chinese Mantrayana tradition. Shingon is based mainly on two tantric scriptures, the Mahavairocana Tantra and the Vajrasekhara Sutra (金剛頂経, Kongōchōkyō).
Kūkai (空海; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835 [1]), born Saeki no Mao (佐伯 眞魚), [2] posthumously called Kōbō Daishi (弘法大師, "The Grand Master who Propagated the Dharma "), was a Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. He travelled to China, where he studied Tangmi ...
Buddhist temples or monasteries are (along with Shinto shrines) the most numerous, famous, and important religious buildings in Japan. [note 1] The shogunates or leaders of Japan have made it a priority to update and rebuild Buddhist temples since the Momoyama period (late 16th century). [1] The Japanese word for a Buddhist monastery is tera ...
Buddhist verse by Ikkyū. Ikkyū (一休宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun, February 1, 1394 - December 12, 1481) was an eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet.He had a great impact on the infusion of Japanese art and literature with Zen attitudes and ideals, [1] as well as on Zen itself, including breaking Buddhist monastic teachings with his stance against celibacy.
Saichō (最澄, September 15, 767 – June 26, 822) was a Japanese Buddhist monk credited with founding the Tendai school of Buddhism based on the Chinese Tiantai school he was exposed to during his trip to Tang China beginning in 804. He founded the temple and headquarters of Tendai at Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei near Kyoto.
First settled in 819 by the monk Kūkai, Mount Kōya is primarily known as the world headquarters of the Kōyasan Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.Located on an 800-meter-high plain amid eight peaks of the mountain, which was the reason this location was selected, in that the terrain is supposed to resemble a lotus plant, the original monastery has grown into the town of Kōya.