Aloha all,
What is mikkyo?
Maybe I should stop reading so many books that just confuse the hell out of me.
mahalo,
Aloha all,
What is mikkyo?
Maybe I should stop reading so many books that just confuse the hell out of me.
mahalo,
Regards,
Joel
Isaiah 6:8
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
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mikkyo
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Greg Ellis
Greg Ellis
I like autumn best of all, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and it is content.
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.
Of course that is a generalization, but it serves to illustrate my answer.
--Guy
Guy H. Power
Kenshinkan Dojo
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