Kūkai (空海; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835), born Saeki no Mao (佐伯 眞魚), 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 (Chinese Vajrayana Buddhism) under the monk …

Le mont Kōya (高野山, Kōya-san?) est une zone montagneuse du Japon située dans le bourg de Kōya (préfecture de Wakayama), au sud-est d'Osaka.Il a donné son nom à un complexe de 117 temples bouddhistes.. Toponymie. À la fin du VIII e siècle, le jeune Kūkai abandonne ses études secondaires afin de se consacrer à la méditation et aux pratiques ascétiques dans les …

Terminology. In Tibetan Buddhism practiced in the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal, and Bhutan, Buddhist Tantra is most often termed Vajrayāna (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ་, dorje tekpa, Wyl.rdo rje theg pa) and Secret mantra (Skt. Guhyamantra, Tib.གསང་སྔགས་, sang ngak, Wyl.gsang sngags).The vajra is a mythical weapon associated with Indra which was said ...

Ninguno de los edificios de la época de Kūkai ha sobrevivido. La Pagoda de las 5 historias, símbolo conjunto tanto del Tō-ji como de Kioto, fue reconstruida en 1644 por orden del tercer Shogun Tokugawa, Iemitsu. La pagoda del Tō-ji tiene 54,8 m. de altura, y constituye la torre de madera más alta de Japón. [3] El edificio más antiguo ...

Iroha; Original title: いろは歌: Country: Japan: Language: Japanese: Meter: or: The Iroha (いろは) is a Japanese poem. Originally the poem was attributed to the founder of the Shingon Esoteric sect of Buddhism in Japan, Kūkai, but more modern research has found the date of composition to be later in the Heian period (794–1179). The first record of its existence dates from 1079.

835 – Kūkai, Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of Esoteric (Shingon) Buddhism (b. 774) 846 – Wuzong, Chinese emperor (b. 814) 1208 – Philip of Poitou, Prince-Bishop of Durham; 1322 – Francis of Fabriano, Italian writer (b. 1251) 1355 – Eleanor of Woodstock, countess regent of Guelders, eldest daughter of King Edward II of England (b. 1318)

Acala or Achala (Sanskrit: अचल, "The Immovable", IPA: [ˈɐt͜ɕɐlɐ]), also known as Acalanātha (अचलनाथ, "Immovable Lord") or Āryācalanātha (आर्याचलनाथ, "Noble Immovable Lord"), is a wrathful deity and dharmapala (protector of the Dharma) prominent in Vajrayana Buddhism and East Asian Buddhism.. Originally a minor deity described as a messenger or ...

Before feudalism was firmly established in Japan, Buddhism occupied the mainstream of Japanese thought. The Buddhist culture introduced politically by Prince Shōtoku was completed as the "making a country safe" thought in the Nara period.When the Heian period (794–1185) began, in substitution for the "making a country safe thought", a form of esoteric Buddhism …

Tō-ji Temple (東寺, Tō-ji, "East Temple"), also known as Kyō-ō-gokoku-ji (教王護国寺, The Temple for the Defense of the Nation by Means of the King of Doctrines) is a Shingon Buddhist temple in the Minami-ku ward of Kyoto, Japan.. Founded in 796, it was one of the only three Buddhist temples allowed in the city at the time it became the capital of Japan.

Etymology. The Sanskrit term ḍākinī is related to ḍīyate, "to fly", as in uḍḍayanam (meaning "flight"). The Tibetan khandroma (Tibetan: མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་, Wylie: mkha' 'gro ma), meaning "sky-goer", may have originated from the Sanskrit khecara (of the same meaning), a term from the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra. The masculine form of the word is ḍāka, which is usually ...