Shingon (真言宗, Shingon-shū, "True Word / Mantra School") is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages...

Shingon (Burmese: ရှင်ကုန်း [ʃɪ̀ɰ̃ ɡóʊɰ̃]; lit. 'Lady Humpback') is one of 37 nats in the official Burmese pantheon of nats. She was a maid of King Thihathu...

The Shingon-risshū (真言律宗, "The Shingon-Vinaya school") is a comparatively small medieval sect of Buddhism in Japan that arose in the Kamakura period as...

being shingon (which is also used as the proper name for the Shingon sect). According to Alex Wayman and Ryujun Tajima, "Zhenyan" (or "Shingon") means...

schools including the Japanese Kegon, Shingon and esoteric lineages of Tendai. In the case of Huayan and Shingon, Vairocana is the central figure. In Chinese...

secret teachings) or by the term Shingon (a Japanese rendering of Zhēnyán), which also refers to a specific school of Shingon-shū (真言宗). The term "Esoteric...

Shinshō (真紹) (797–873) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Shingon sect and founder of the Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji in Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). He studied...

Kōyasan Shingon-shū (高野山真言宗) is a Japanese sect of Shingon Buddhism. Headquartered on Mount Kōya in Wakayama Prefecture, it is also the oldest and largest...

Lüzong and Oxhead school) Shingon (Zhenyan) Kōyasan Shingon-shū Shingon Risshu (Syncretized with Risshū) Shingon-shu Buzan-ha Shingon-shū Chizan-ha Shinnyo-en...

Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. He travelled to China, where he studied Tangmi (Chinese...