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Japanese and monks
Kammu also sponsored the travels of the monks Saichō and Kūkai to China, from where they returned to found the Japanese branches of, respectively, Tendai and Shingon Buddhism.
Therefore Japanese Zen, Pureland and Nichiren, are led by priests ( or minister ) rather than by monks.
* As recorded in the Nihon Shoki of 720, the Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist monks and engineers Zhi Yu and Zhi You recreate several South Pointing Chariots for the Japanese Emperor Tenji.
In some cases they are forest dwelling monks of the Theravada tradition and in other cases they are married clergy of a Japanese Zen lineage and may work a secular job in addition to their role in the Buddhist community.
In 1223, Japanese Zen master Dōgen Kigen recorded on Shōbōgenzō that he saw monks in China clean their teeth with brushes made of horse-tail hairs attached to an ox-bone handle.
Brought to Japan in the 6th century by Korean Buddhist monks, who used the mystical aromas in their purification rites, the delicate scents of Koh ( high-quality Japanese incense ) became a source of amusement and entertainment with nobles in the Imperial Court during the Heian Era 200 years later.
The typical characters are drawn from Japanese society of the time — nobility, warriors, monks, scholars, doctors, peasant farmers, fishermen, merchants, prostitutes, bandits, beggars.
Category: Japanese Buddhist monks
For example, Benzaiten is a Japanese name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati, and the ancient Siddhaṃ script, which disappeared from India by 1200 CE, is still written by monks in Japan.
Other Japanese monks follow the Bodhisattva Precepts only.
Category: Japanese Buddhist monks
is one of the mainstream major schools of Japanese Buddhism and one of the few surviving Esoteric Buddhist lineages that started in the 3rd to 4th century CE that originally spread from India to China through traveling monks such as Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra.
Throughout the centuries, except for the initiated, most of the Japanese common folk knew little about its secretive doctrines and the monks of this " Mantra School " except that besides performing the usual priestly duties of prayers, blessings and funeral rites for the public, they practiced only Mikkyō ( 密教 ), literally " secret ways " in stark contrast to all other Buddhist schools and were called upon to perform mystical rituals that could summon rain, improve harvests, exorcise demons, avert natural disasters, heal the sick and protect the state.
The Japanese monks Gyonen of the Pure Land Buddhism and Zenshu and Joto of the Faziang school were also influenced by him.
Nichiren, Hōnen, Shinran, and Dōgen — all famous thinkers in non-Tendai schools of Japanese Buddhism — were all initially trained as Tendai monks.
Category: Japanese Buddhist monks
Only after Buddhist monks helped repel a Japanese invasion at the end of the 16th century ( see Imjin wars ) did the persecution of Buddhism and Buddhist practitioners stop.
The strong Korean influence on the development of Buddhism in Japan continued through the Unified Silla period ; only in the 8th century did independent study by Japanese monks begin in significant numbers.
One of the most important reasons for the restoration of Buddhism to a position of minimal acceptance was the role of Buddhist monks in repelling the Japanese invasions of Korea, which occurred between 1592 and 1598.
The presence of the monks ' army was a critical factor in the eventual expulsion of the Japanese invaders.
Japanese Buddhists demanded the right to proselytize in the cities, lifting the five-hundred year ban on monks and nuns entering cities.
More importantly, monks from pro-Japanese factions began to adopt Japanese practices, by marrying and having children.
The Japanese practice of allowing Buddhist priests to marry contradicted the Vinaya and the lifestyle of Korean Buddhist monks and nuns, who traditionally lived as celibates.
Specifically, a deep rift opened between married priests and celibate monks, an carryover from Japanese Buddhism.

Japanese and also
At this Women's University we find a monument to a courageous family who believed that Japanese women also should be educated.
Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.
Fudo, the god of wisdom, was also thought of as the Japanese version of Acala.
Roy Andrew Miller's 1971 book Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages convinced most Altaicists that Japanese also belonged to Altaic.
Doubt was also raised about the affinities of Korean and Japanese ; in particular, some authors tried to connect Japanese to the Austronesian languages.
* Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki ( entry ceremony for schools ) are usually held later, around second week of April.
They also urged him to recognize the Japanese genocide against the Ainu people, but Putin declined.
* 1910 The Japan Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.
He was also the third Japanese chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.
It is also known as kanten, China grass, Japanese isinglass, Ceylon moss or Jaffna moss.
It is also the main ingredient in Mizuyōkan, another popular Japanese food.
BRP was also licensed to Japanese companies.
Retzius also describes how farmers would plant chives between the rocks making up the borders of their flowerbeds, to keep the plants free from pests ( such as Japanese beetles ).
Apart from the head office building and the R & D building of Capcom Co., Ltd., both located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, the Japanese parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.
They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.
They were also criticised due to releasing Monster Hunter Frontier Online only to Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese players, citing cultural and language issues with western players interacting with the Asian players.
The empire also had to deal with Japanese pirates attacking the southeastern coastline ; General Qi Jiguang was instrumental in defeating these pirates.
" A. D .," and less commonly, " C. E .," are also occasionally seen, but the typical Japanese person would not know about the religious connotations or lack of in these terms.
These came from Buddhist beliefs ; the classical Chinese elements (, go gyô ) are also prominent in Japanese culture, especially to the influential Neo-Confucianists during the Edo period.
The ancient Japanese of the Kofun period also adopted cavalry and equine culture by the 5th century AD.
The Japanese were also concerned that Chiang might defeat the Fengtian Clique.

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