The Yamabushi

[Prince Loeffler]

I was wondering who exactly were these group and do they still exist or were they abolished like the Samurai.

Thanks !

[Hattori]

Shugenja (Yamabushi) still exist. They are basically wandering mountain ascetics. Check these sites for further info. The first is by a French practitioner Sylvain Guintard.

http://members.shaw.ca/shugendo/intro.html

http://members.shaw.ca/shugendo/main.html

http://kobe-iyashi.hp.infoseek.co.jp/shugen.htm

http://heianjiten.fc2web.com/syugendou.htm

http://www.coara.or.jp/~daikoin/

http://www.pref.nara.jp/nara/kaido/eg/syugen/main_sy.htm

Some of these have English if you can't read Japanese.

[Prince Loeffler]

Thanks Mr. Kemlo, I am gonna have a busy reading .

[kimiwane]

Thanks Mr. Kemlo, I am gonna have a busy reading .

Yes, those are some pretty interesting looking sites. Worth looking at.

[kimiwane]

Shugenja (Yamabushi) still exist. They are basically wandering mountain ascetics.

Off hand, would you know if the Yamabushi are associated with the tengu or Sarutan Hiko?

I will check out your links.

Thanks.

[don]

Off hand, would you know if the Yamabushi are associated with the tengu or Sarutan Hiko?

I will check out your links.

Thanks.

Don't know about that, but Carmen Blacker went along on an ascetic retreat with them. Read about it in her The Catalpa Bow. Also, check out Helen Hardacre. Also,

http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/jjrs/pdf/172.pdf
http://www.fcc.sophia.ac.jp/academics/syllabus/HST445_Umezawa.pdf

The JJRS site is terrific.

[Prince Loeffler]

Don't know about that, but Carmen Blacker went along on an ascetic retreat with them. Read about it in her The Catalpa Bow. Also, check out Helen Hardacre. Also,

http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/jjrs/pdf/172.pdf
http://www.fcc.sophia.ac.jp/academics/syllabus/HST445_Umezawa.pdf

The JJRS site is terrific.


Thanks for the links Mr. Modesto.

[Andrew S]

Off hand, would you know if the Yamabushi are associated with the tengu or Sarutan Hiko?
A recent article in the English Daily Yomiuri suggested that Yamabushi could identify different types of Tengu. I'll have to rumage through the recycle box..

[Hattori]

On Tengu and Yamabushi associations -

http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/tengu.shtml

[Matsuba]

Off hand, would you know if the Yamabushi are associated with the tengu or Sarutan Hiko?

I will check out your links.

Thanks.
Mr. Orange, Tsubaki Jinja in Mie ken Japan ( as well as Tsubaki America in WA.) has a very close relationship with SarutaHiko no Okami. Both shrines have practices that could be considered "yamabushi-like" ( mountain climbing, O-misogi ect). Jason House

[don]

Ah, I forgot. There's also The Marathon Monks of Mt. Hiei. I shudder to recommend Stevens, but while the book was pretty roundly savaged for its scholarly shortcomings in refereed journals, they did admit that the interviews of practitioners were good.