Kūkai

There are lanterns that glow softly at night that are celebrating or bring honor and awareness.

And it is surrounding a mausoleum to Kobo Daishi, who was a founder of the Shingon Buddhism practice.

Municipal cemeteries, those ones are probably the ones in the U.S. you will see a lot of.

They are owned by a local city or county.

Mm.

I mean, Kukai said, "Well, you know, you can have a, a practice based on anything."

Mm.

You know, you can just stick a matchbox in front of you.

Mm.

Don't know if they had matchboxes in Kukai's time.

[laughs]

So-

It is very popular amongst ardent Buddhists in China, and excepting the Lotus of the Good Law and the Leng Yen Ching, perhaps no other sutra ascribed to Buddha is regarded by the Chinese with so great esteem.

In Japan, the Diamond Sutra appears to be perused extensively by what Max Müller termed the Shingon sect, founded by Kobo, a disciple of the renowned pilgrim Huin Tsang about the year 816 AD.

The Diamond Sutra was written originally in Sanskrit, and in process of time translated into the Tibetan, Chinese, Mongol, and Manchu languages.

It represents the Mahayana school of Buddhist thought, a school founded by Nagarjuna, which flourished primarily at Chakuka, and thereafter influenced appreciably a considerable part of the Buddhist church.

And is it 88 or is there another one? Does that include Koyasan? Isn't that like Koyasan is connected to it somehow? I don't know.

Isn't it all like a Kobo Daishi related? Well, it

is.

But that's

That's pretty good.

When you read Kukai, I feel the same.

Just like, man,

gosh.

Well, one of the things that I like about Shingon is that it's very consciously...

Diverse, I guess you could say.

So Kukai had this big way of synthesizing all the different schools of Buddhism that had come to Japan in his time, and he had studied all of them.

And so he saw Shingon as kind of permeating and kind of synthesizing all these different traditions, which means that he was very open.

It is very popular amongst ardent Buddhists in China, and excepting the Lotus of the Good Law and the Lan Yen Ching, perhaps no other Sutra ascribed to Buddha is regarded by the Chinese with so great esteem.

In Japan, The Diamond Sutra appears to be perused extensively by what Max Müller termed the Shingon sect, founded by Kobo, a disciple of the renowned pilgrim Hiuen Tsang, about the year eight sixteen AD.

The Diamond Sutra was written originally in Sanskrit and in process of time translated into the Tibetan, Chinese, Mongol, and Manchu languages.

It represents the Mahayana school of Buddhist thought, a school founded by Nagarjuna, which flourished primarily at Chakuka and thereafter influenced appreciably a considerable part of the Buddhist Church.