referred to by the name En no Gyōja (役行者, "En the ascetic"), En no Ubasoku (役優婆塞, "En the Layman") , or also under the full name En no Kimi Ozunu, where Kimi...

mountain worship and Buddhism. The seventh-century ascetic and mystic En no Gyōja is widely considered as the patriarch of Shugendō, having first organized...

district, Nara Prefecture, Japan. According to tradition, it was founded by En no Gyōja, who propagated a form of mountain asceticism drawing from Shinto and...

Buddhist ascetic and mystic of the late Asuka period monk En no Gyōja (ca. 634–701). En no Gyōja is considered the founder of Shugendō, a syncretic religion...

together Buddhist and ancient Shinto elements. It was founded by En no Gyōja (役行者, "En the ascetic"). During the Kamakura period, many Buddhist schools...

Land Buddhism temple in Yoshino, Nara, famous for a Nyoi-rin image by En no Gyōja Besides temples, some other proper names include Nyoigatake 如意ケ嶽 "as-desired...

Vajrayana schools. Shugendō was founded in 7th-century Japan by the ascetic En no Gyōja, based on the Queen's Peacocks Sutra. With its origins in the solitary...

suspicion by explaining that they, as yamabushi, follow the ways of En no Gyōja, whom he says was compassionate and hospitable towards demons. The warriors...

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the temples' forces to the clans' already mighty armies of samurai. Taira no Kiyomori sent generous gifts of rice and silk to Enryaku-ji, ensuring they...