Dharma Wheel

It's an esoteric ritual involving the Taizokai Mandala. Here this public link might be helpful:
http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/m ... ebook.html
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Rory

4/21 10:00am (Japan Time)

Hieizan Enryakuji, Sange-e Mandala Li-hoyo Service, Broadcast live on the internet.
You can watch it here live!
https://www.tendai-usa.org/single-post/sange-e-mandala

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Rory

I may have something unique to add here, being transsexual… Do you know why the ratio is skewed? If most women are like me, they despise arguing. There is entirely too much of that on this forum. Discussion doesn't require cantankerousness. I'm a woman and enjoy arguing as a child my pro-women pare...

There is modern scholarship that illuminates the subject. A great deal in Japanese. This is an interesting book about monastic revival, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wr0s2 Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan Lori Meeks This one is also very fine: Engendering...

Here is the classic text from the great Pure Land master Genshin: Thanks to Rev.Jikai Dehn who made the translation: The Collection on the Mental Contemplation of Amida (Buddha) by Sramana Genshin of the Eshin-In. The Sanskrit character A 1 is none other than the Principle of Emptiness. 2 The charac...

I spoke with Indrajala, who just got his doctorate in East Asian Studies about this. He said it would take me about 5 years to be able to read scholarship. I'm finishing Genki 1 in one year, I'll do the same with Genki 2. I suggest you when you are finishing year 1, have your teacher find a Shinshu ...

I'm studying Japanese, with the plan to speak and to eventually read Japanese texts on Buddhism with studying Classical Chinese as a goal. I'm using a great textbook "Genki" and have a tutor. Genki does a good job of explaining grammar and teaching characters. Go through Genki 1 and Genki 2 then, di...

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Here is the Tendai California Learning Center: https://www.tendai-usa.org/education It's international.There are priests from Europe, Australia, South America and all over the US who have studied with the TCLC! PRACTICE EDUCATION For those new to Buddhism or wishing to learn and practice in Tendai s...

This looks like a good scholarly book on Shugendo: https://www.press.umich.edu/9438986/shugendo Shugendo Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion Volume 32 Miyake Hitoshi Edited and with an Introduction by H. Byron Earhart A comprehensive work on Japanese asceticism and folk religion. This ...

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First have you checked the sect sites Nichiren Shu and Tendai Shu for children's pages? My Japanese isn't swift enough yet to find them for you. until then here is one in English, this is traditional, it's from the of City of 10,000 Buddhas And here is a link to their collection of Children's books ...

Watch Enryakuji's New Year's Ceremonies' broadcast streaming from Mt. Hiei Watch the new year's ceremonies at the main temple of Tendai-shu on Mt.Hiei December 31st at 5:15 am PST. https://www.tendai-usa.org/single-post/Enryakuji-New-Years-Live-Broadcast - event schedule link Youtube: https://www.yo...

Don't forget Tendai; Genshin was a great teacher of Pure Land Buddhism! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genshin The Japanese Tendai tradition continued the common trend of syncretism practiced by the Chinese T'ien-t'ai tradition and most schools of Chinese Buddhism... In such a way, Pure Land thought ...

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