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Joel Simmons
3rd October 2001, 23:41
Aloha all,

What is mikkyo?

Maybe I should stop reading so many books that just confuse the hell out of me. :)

mahalo,

Connor Sims
4th October 2001, 01:54
Here is some basic information - I'm not sure if 'Mikkyo' is the same as the 'Shingon Mikkyo' you refer to.

Any one else with any thoughts? ;)

http://www.west.net/~sanmaya/ajimon.html
http://www.koyasan.org/nckoyasan/introduction.html

gmellis
4th October 2001, 02:11
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mikkyo
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Greg Ellis

ghp
4th October 2001, 02:12
Connor,

Mikkyo is "Esoteric Teachings" -- the sort found in Tantric Buddhism (Tibetan, Shingon, Tendai, Nichirenshu, and Yamabushi practices). The "kuji-kiri" finger-weavings popularized in ninja movies (and also taught in Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu) were adapted from mikkyo Buddhism.

Tantric at http://www.crosswinds.net/~campross/Tibetan.html

Shingon at http://www.west.net/~sanmaya

Tendai at http://angelreiki.nu/ryoho/tendai.htm

Nichiren Shu at http://www.crosswinds.net/~campross/NShu.html

Nichiren Shoshu at http://www.crosswinds.net/~campross/NShoshu.html
The "Shoshu" part of the name means "true religion." It is an off-shoot of the original Nichiren Shu, and is the religion of the Soka Gakkai lay organization. The political party "Komeito" [the Clean Government Party] is/was/still is strongly associated with Soka Gakkai.

I wouldn't have listed the Nichiren schools as Mikkyo, but their names kept coming up in web searches. Members of these religions may not agree with the "esoteric" label.

http://www.crosswinds.net/~campross/bodhisattva/Tara3.gif

Of course that is a generalization, but it serves to illustrate my answer.

--Guy

carl mcclafferty
4th October 2001, 12:17
Guy:

Back in the late 60s I practiced Nichiren as a teenager (17) in Oxnard with some Japanese. More a "I'm studying the martial arts ought to do the culture" thing. Not too many Japanese believe me until I repeat the main Sutra (sic), than they act as if I going to turn them into a frog. Heh Heh it may not qualify it as esoteric.

Babasan took me to the mountain shrine where he allegedly lived, nice place. I think it had trees bigger than the one's at the Katori Shrine.

Carl