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    Shugendō is an old Japanese religion focused on obtaining enlightenment through studying the relationship between man and nature. Practitioners live an ascetic lifestyle in the mountains, incorporating teachings from Shinto, Buddhism, and folk animism. En-no-Gyōja is considered to have first organized Shugendō as a doctrine, with the goal of developing spiritual experience and power. Hijiri were ancient Shugendō practitioners and direct lineage descendants of holy men from the 8th-9th centuries who wandered mountains as shamanic sages or ascetics of various traditions including Shinto and Buddhism.

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    Shugendō is an old Japanese religion focused on obtaining enlightenment through studying the relationship between man and nature. Practitioners live an ascetic lifestyle in the mountains, incorporating teachings from Shinto, Buddhism, and folk animism. En-no-Gyōja is considered to have first organized Shugendō as a doctrine, with the goal of developing spiritual experience and power. Hijiri were ancient Shugendō practitioners and direct lineage descendants of holy men from the 8th-9th centuries who wandered mountains as shamanic sages or ascetics of various traditions including Shinto and Buddhism.

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    Shugendō is an old Japanese religion focused on obtaining enlightenment through studying the relationship between man and nature. Practitioners live an ascetic lifestyle in the mountains, incorporating teachings from Shinto, Buddhism, and folk animism. En-no-Gyōja is considered to have first organized Shugendō as a doctrine, with the goal of developing spiritual experience and power. Hijiri were ancient Shugendō practitioners and direct lineage descendants of holy men from the 8th-9th centuries who wandered mountains as shamanic sages or ascetics of various traditions including Shinto and Buddhism.

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    Shugendō (修験道?

    ) is an old Japanese religion in which enlightenment is


    obtained through the study of the relationship between Man and Nature.
    Shugendō literally means "the path of training and testing." It centers on an
    ascetic, mountain-dwelling lifestyle and incorporates teachings from Koshintō
    (ancient Shinto), Buddhism and other eastern philosophies including folk
    animism. Shugendo practitioners are the most direct lineage descendants of the
    ancient hijiri of the eight and ninth centuries.[1] The focus or goal of shugendō is
    the development of spiritual experience and power.
    En-no-Gyōja is often considered as having first organized shugendō as a
    doctrine.

    Hijiri (Japanese: “holy man”), in Japanese religion, a man of great personal


    magnetism and spiritual power, as distinct from a leader of an institutionalized
    religion. Historically, hijiri has been used to refer to sages of various traditions,
    such as the shaman, Shinto mountain ascetic, Taoist magician, or Buddhist reciter.
    Most characteristically hijiri describes the wandering…

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