The two major centers of Esoteric Buddhism in Japan are Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei in the northeast of Kyoto, and Kongobuji Temple in Koyasan, Wakayama Prefecture.

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info1、Mt. Hiei Enryakuji Mt. Hiei Enryakuji Temple is the main mountain of the Tendai sect, and it is known as the two major towns of the southern capital and the northern ridge along with the capital Nara at that time, so we can see the importance of Eizan Buddhism.

Originally, Tiantai Sect did not belong to a branch of Esoteric Buddhism, but because the founding patriarch of Enryakuji Temple: the missionary master is the most Cheng (there is a young man in the car in "The Peacock King", and his monk father took him this name, hoping to inherit the mantle in the future), he once sent Tang envoys to Tang to seek Dharma, and also practiced Tiantai Buddhism and Tantra (Tibetan Buddhism).

After returning to Japan, Esoteric Buddhism was highly valued in the imperial court, and as a result, the Esoteric color of Enryakuji became stronger and stronger.

However, the most Cheng is majoring in Tiantai and auxiliary Esoteric Buddhism, and he thinks that he is not fully familiar with Tantric Buddhism, and often borrows books and asks for benefits from the ancestor of the Peacock, who is the most Cheng junior master of the Dharma Propagation Master Kukai.

In short, in the future, the tradition of the two sects of Enryakuji Temple has been passed down.

In 794 A.D., Emperor Kanmu moved the capital from Nara to Heian (i.e., Kyoto), this place is full of dragons and tigers, and the feng shui is excellent, that is, the northeast corner of the mountain is pulled up a mountain, so that the whole geography is broken, called the ghost gate.

So the emperor gave Mt. Hiei to the most sumi, and gave the temple the name of the emperor's year Enryaku, hoping that this powerful monk would guard the place, so that the demons and monsters could not harass the imperial capital, and the abbots of Enryakuji Temple were all honored as the lord of the Tendai.

Incidentally, the third-generation Tiantai lord is called Jikaku Daishi, who was borrowed by Ogino Shin to be the name of the peacock's father.

The monks of Mt. Hiei have an ascetic practice called the Thousand Ilhomin: from the first year to the third year, for 100 days a year, they visit about 300 shrines and Buddhist temples in the territory of Mt. Hiei, with a total distance of about 30 kilometers; In the fourth and fifth years, the path is the same, but each has two hundred days, and after the two hundred days of the fourth year are completed, the white belt robe and cane are awarded, and the title of white belt walker is obtained; Then, after the completion of the 200 days in the fifth year, he entered the main temple of the temple of the Ming Wang, and retreated for nine days: during this period, the water and electricity were cut off...... Ah, fasting, water, sleeping, lying down, concentrating on chanting the Buddha, generally speaking, on the seventh day or so, the pupils will begin to dilate and emit the phenomenon of corpse odor......!

If your life is hard enough, you can get the title of Ajali (the Cikong monk in "The Peacock King" has this title, after such a ** practice, no wonder the mana is strong).

In addition to the original itinerary, you have to go to the Akayama Monastery in the western suburbs of Kyoto for 100 days, which is twice as long as 60 kilometers a day. The first 100 days of the seventh year are the so-called Daihui Peak, and there are many of the same in the front, plus the visit to the temples in Kyoto, the total distance is 84 kilometers, and the last 100 days return to the most relaxing 30 kilometers at the beginning...... After seven years and a thousand days, the total distance traveled is more than 38,000 kilometers, just enough to circle the earth, at this time you can get the title of the Great Acharya, and have the privilege of wearing shoes to enter the Imperial Palace (Kyoto Imperial Palace), and after the position of Mt. Hiei in Japanese Buddhism became more and more important, and almost all the patriarchs of the sects were born in Hiei: Horan of the Pure Land sect, Kin-luan of the Pure Land Shinshu, Eisai of the Rinzai sect, Dogen of the Soto sect, Nichiren of the Hokke sect...... But with the political power is getting bigger and bigger, the monk Eizan has also abandoned the heart of monasticism and degenerated, in addition to the luxury of life, more support the army and self-respect, even in the Warring States Period, no prince dared to despise the monk regiment of the brave and fierce Eizan Mountain, until a generation of heroes Oda Nobunaga under the banner of the world's Buwu, ready to unify the Warring States in troubled times, at this time Hiei Mountain supported the great princes Asakura Yoshikage and Oda Nobunaga against him, Nobunaga was angry, heavy troops surrounded Hiei Mountain, the land is not divided into east and west, north and south, people are not divided into men, women, old and young, The fire burned cleanly, and all 3,000 men, women, and children were killed, so Nobunaga also won the nickname of the Sixth Heavenly Demon King and became the number one executioner in the persecution of Buddhism...... After Nobunaga's death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took over the world, and only then did Mt. Hiei rebuild and give it to him, and it was only in the Tokugawa Ieyasu era that it was rebuilt in size.

2, Koyasan Koyasan, probably the most familiar Japanese Buddhist holy place for comic book fans, in the animation and comic works, where there are exorcists who subdue demons and eliminate demons, nine out of ten were born in Koyasan: the peacock in "The Peacock King", the Rilun Li in "The Legend of King Ming", and the Suegawa Empty Tai in "X" and so on.

Koyasan is the main mountain of Shingon Buddhism, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Shingon Buddhism is the most important branch of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism.

We often see these powerful exorcists in animated comics making handprints, reciting mantras, and then they can play Datuo Qigong or summon gods, demons and monsters to help, which is very cool.

So, what is mantra?

The fighters are all arrayed in front!

Koyasan is located in Wakayama Prefecture south of Kyoto, about 1,000 meters above sea level, there is a vast basin on the mountain, 117 temples in Koyasan are located in the basin, and the mountains surrounding the basin are called the inner eight leaves and the outer eight leaves - readers who are familiar with the "Peacock King" will of course think of the villain Yaba Sensei, in fact, the two are the center of the mandala in the Tibetan world, and this place can be said to be a place where birds do not lay eggs in the Heian period, Kukai in the 23rd year of Enryaku (804 AD) with the Tang envoy to China to cultivate, before returning to China, he thought that after returning to Japan, he should find a place to establish his own temple, so he threw his magic weapon triple cobalt pestle (there are three forked vajra at each end, the peacock loves to use the single cobalt pestle, both ends are not forked) into the sky, and the triple cobalt pestle flew to Japan.

After Kukai returned to Japan by ship, he began to search for the whereabouts of the three cobalt pestles.

Along the way, I found Mt. Koya, and under the guidance of the mountain god Dansheng Tsuhime Myojin and the hunter Myojin, I finally found the three-cobalt pestle nailed to a pine tree, so I settled here, which is the origin of the Koyasan Shingon Esoteric Sect, the base camp of the exorcists.

Today, the Gokagedo on Mt. Koya is dedicated to Kukai Daishi and his ten disciples, and this is where the legendary Three Cobalt Pines are located.

Of course, this is a story that deified Kukai, but because of this legend, the three-cobalt pestle has become a registered trademark of Kukai, and his image is mostly a prayer bead in one hand and a three-cobalt pestle in the other.

Due to the boundless power of Kukai Daishi, in the 7th year of Hongin (806 AD), the Imperial Court officially granted Koyasan to Kukai, and it became a nationally recognized Buddhist holy site, and since then it has rapidly expanded and developed.

Until now, Koyasan has become a complete religious city, with a wide range of functions from kindergartens to universities, shopping streets, parks, hospitals, police stations, fire stations, and city buses in addition to temples.

The core of religion is the Kongobu Temple of Shingon Buddhism, which appears in the "Legend of King Ming", and is the place where the protagonists of the father and son of Rilun Li and the high monk Rensheng Shanming originate.

The current building was built in 1862 due to several wars and fires.

In 1200 A.D., Emperor Gotoba (after the abdication of the emperor, he is respected as the emperor, if he is a monk, he is called the emperor) in order to pray for rain to the sky, established the Peacock Hall, which worships the Peacock King, needless to say, is the peacock's natal guardian saint in "The Peacock King"; The Fudo Hall built by Emperor Toba in 1197 is dedicated to King Fudo and his attendants Eight Great Boys, which is naturally the protagonist of "The Legend of King Ming".

In the past, women were not allowed to enter Koyasan due to gender discrimination, but the ban was not lifted until the Meiji 5 year (1872), and before that, a compromise was adopted to establish a women-only branch museum for women to worship, that is, the women's hall.

The most mysterious and weird thing is, of course, the Satokoya in the depths of Koyasan.

The so-called Satomoka refers to the Okunoin Temple, which is full of towering giant trees, and in broad daylight, it is not seen from the sun, and among these century-old cedars, all of them are graves!

The mottled stone towers can be seen here with many famous historical figures: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Uesugi Kenshin, Takeda Shingen, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Mutsu Munemitsu...... Also, as we mentioned last time, all the famous monks were born in Hiei, but after their deaths, they were all enshrined in Koya.

In the deepest part of the temple of Sato Koya-no-in, Kukai Daishi was 62 years old in the second year of Seiwa (835 AD), and after returning to Koyasan from Kyoto in February, he began to fast, and on March 21, he became a Buddha (became a mummy) and passed away, and he remained here forever.