Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Hi Frederick!

Since this is about Buddhism you could have just put it in the Buddhism section. I will ask Brian to move it there.

Yes indeed the school you that was into that stuff is the Shingon School founded by Kobo Daishi Kukai.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingon

The documentary you saw on this practice was indeed made by N.H.K and was alter on translated in English. I still have a copy of that documentary somewhere on a VHS tape.

This practice is actually a practice of mummification by losing weight little by little and reducing the muscular mass to its minimum until in the last steps those freaks would drink a tea made out of hang on to your seats URUSHI and then get buried alive in a hole to read sutras until they would die. Why urushi? Well here is the gimmick by drinking this they would lacquer themselves from the inside preventing their body from rotting when they would be dead.


Here is a full article on the subject.

http://www.geocities.com/gabigreve2000/ … japan.html

http://www.jref.com/culture/mummies.shtml

http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/07/ … japan.html


Although I have learned and still practice Shingon along with my Zen practices there is many aspect that I somehow do not agree with either in their past history or even their present way of doing some things.

Also on the other side of Japanese esoteric Buddhism the Tendai school based on Mount Hiei near Kyoto still has to this day a very crazy practice of this type in which most people that tried to pull it off died in the process.

This practice is called the Sen nichi Kai ho gyo

In this one the freaky part is that after running up and down a mountain for 1000 days they spend the last NINE DAYS without eating drinking or sleeping so if the whole thing did not already kill you the last nine days will usually do it

Anyway another practice that I find quite futile and pathetic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaihogyo

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/ … 25647.html

http://www.howtobefit.com/tendai-marathon-monks.htm

http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/RE/ … kitext.htm

Last edited by Gishin (2007-12-29 05:45:49)

My pleasure!

Any info you need I will be happy to provide or guide you to the proper documentation or people to get them answered.