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Contents. Kūkai. Painting of Kūkai from the Shingon Hassozō, a set of scrolls depicting the first eight patriarchs of the Shingon school. Japan, Kamakura period (13th-14th centuries). Kūkai ( 空海; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835 [1] ), born Saeki no Mao (佐伯 眞魚), [2] posthumously called Kōbō Daishi (弘法大師, "The Grand Master ...
Oct 3, 2006 · In order to understand the above-mentioned distinctions made by Kūkai, we need to comprehend what exactly the Buddha signifies for Kūkai. This is also important as his esoteric view of the Buddha underlies all of the major points of his philosophy that we shall be discussing further below.
Kūkai was one of the best-known and most-beloved Buddhist saints in Japan, founder of the Shingon (“True Word”) school of Buddhism that emphasizes spells, magic formulas, ceremonials, and masses for the dead.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Kūkai ( 空海; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835), born Saeki no Mao (佐伯 眞魚), posthumously called Kōbō Daishi(弘法大師, "The Grand Master who Propagated the Dharma "), was a Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism.
The next emperor Junna gave Kūkai the task of completing the Tōji.or Eastern Temple, in the capital city, in return for which he promised to make it an exclusive venue for esoteric practice in which Kūkai would have charge of 50 monks.
Kūkai. David L. Gardiner. In addition to being the founder of the influential Shingon school of Japanese Buddhism, Kūkai (774–835) was one of Japan’s greatest calligraphers, a masterful scholar of pre-Tang dynasty classical Chinese literature, a ritual innovator, and an institutional builder who developed influential networks of ...
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Kūkai (空海), also known posthumously as Kōbō-Daishi (弘法大師), 774 – 835 C.E.: Japanese monk, scholar, and artist, founder of the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism. The epitome of Kūkai's esoteric Buddhism asserted the theory of "life" as the anchor of Mahayana branch. Until Kūkai's time period, there had been no ...
