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Adreas_Varikas
12th September 2004, 17:41
Hello everyone,

I would like to know if shugendo is still practiced, and where.
Any URLs you have to suggest?

->If this is not the appropriate forum, please move it to where it belongs. Thank you!;)

don
12th September 2004, 18:36
Originally posted by Adreas_Varikas
Hello everyone,

I would like to know if shugendo is still practiced, and where.
Any URLs you have to suggest?

->If this is not the appropriate forum, please move it to where it belongs. Thank you!;)

In the 70's, Carmen Blacker wrote The Catalpa Bow and described a Shugendo ascetic journey she was allowed to go on. She went back some years later and said the practice was pretty tepid compared to what she'd seen (itself a pale imitation of prior practices.) Remeber, Shugendo was actively suppressed by the government. What's left is probably just fragments.

There was a special issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies devoted to Shugendo: June–September 1989, 16/2–3, Shugendo and Mountain Religion in Japan, Edited by Royall Tyler and Paul L. Swanson. Read the nine articles in full text at www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/jjrs/jjrs.htm (Click on "CUMULATIVE CONTENTS (on-line from 1974 )" on left side of page and then do a find on "Royall Tyler" on the linked page. That'll take you to the issue.)

Also, there was a post somewhere in the last few days with a link to a Shugendo page. Someone else may recall it for you. Hope this helps. Let us know what you come up with.

All the best.

don
13th September 2004, 01:03
Originally posted by don
Also, there was a post somewhere in the last few days with a link to a Shugendo page. Someone else may recall it for you.

Beat 'em to it: http://www.members.shaw.ca/Shugendo/main.html

Oniyama
13th September 2004, 16:28
Here is the link to the thread:

http://www.e-budo.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27609


Originally posted by Oniyama
I think this is who you are looking for:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/Shugendo/

His name is Sylvain Guintard and as far as I know he is legit.

Hope that helps.

Take care,
John