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Gorintō

("five-ringed tower") is a Japanese type of Buddhist pagoda believed to have been first adopted by the Shingon and Tendai sects during the mid Heian period. ^[1]

23 relations: Buddhism, Godai (Japanese philosophy), Heian period, Iwate Prefecture, Japanese language, Japanese pagoda, Kakuban, Kamakura period, Kōjien, Kūkai, Lotus Sutra, Mahābhūta, Mikkyō, Nichiren, Sanskrit, Shingon Buddhism, Siddhaṃ script, Stupa, Sutra, Tahōtō, Tendai, Vajrayana, Western esotericism.
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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Godai (Japanese philosophy)

Godai are the five elements in Japanese Buddhist thought of earth (chi), water (sui), fire (ka), wind (fu), and void (ku).

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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Iwate Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Japanese pagoda

Multi-storied pagodas in wood and stone, and a gorintō Pagodas in Japan are called, sometimes or, and derive historically from the Chinese pagoda, itself an interpretation of the Indian stupa. Gorintō and Japanese pagoda are pagodas in Japan.

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Kakuban

Kakuban (覚鑁/覺鑁; 1095–1143), known posthumously as Kōgyō-Daishi (興教大師) was a priest of the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan and credited as a reformer, though his efforts also led to a schism between and.

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Kamakura period

The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans.

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Kōjien

is a single-volume Japanese dictionary first published by Iwanami Shoten in 1955.

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Kūkai

Kūkai (空海; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835Kūkai was born in 774, the 5th year of the Hōki era; his exact date of birth was designated as the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the Japanese lunar calendar, some 400 years later, by the Shingon sect (Hakeda, 1972 p. 14). Accordingly, Kūkai's birthday is commemorated on June 15 in modern times.

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Lotus Sutra

The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram, Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma, 妙法蓮華經) is one of the most influential and venerated Buddhist Mahāyāna sūtras.

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Mahābhūta

Mahābhūta is Sanskrit for "great element".

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Mikkyō

In Japanese Buddhism, mikkyō (密教, from himitsu bukkyō, literally "secret Buddhism") or Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, is the lineage of Vajrayana transmitted to Japan, primarily in the early Heian by Kūkai, and to a later extent by Saichō and his successors such as Ennin.

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Nichiren

Nichiren (16 February 1222 – 13 October 1282) was a Japanese Buddhist priest and philosopher of the Kamakura period.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Shingon Buddhism

is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism.

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Siddhaṃ script

(also), also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, is a medieval Brahmic abugida, derived from the Gupta script and ancestral to the Nāgarī, Eastern Nagari, Tirhuta, Odia and Nepalese scripts.

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Stupa

In Buddhism, a stupa (lit) is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as śarīra – typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation.

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Sutra

Sutra (translation)Monier Williams, Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Entry for, page 1241 in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text.

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Tahōtō

A is a form of Japanese pagoda found primarily at Esoteric Shingon and Tendai school Buddhist temples. Gorintō and Tahōtō are pagodas in Japan.

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Tendai

, also known as the Tendai Lotus School (天台法華宗 Tendai hokke shū, sometimes just "hokke shū"), is a Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition with significant esoteric elements that was officially established in Japan in 806 by the Japanese monk Saichō (posthumously known as Dengyō Daishi).

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Vajrayana

Vajrayāna (वज्रयान; 'vajra vehicle'), also known as Mantrayāna ('mantra vehicle'), Mantranāya ('path of mantra'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret mantra vehicle'), Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Buddhist tradition of tantric practice that developed in Medieval India and spread to Tibet, Nepal, other Himalayan states, East Asia, parts of Southeast Asia and Mongolia.

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Western esotericism

Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorintō

Also known as Gorinto.

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