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| | Vajrayana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | While tantra and esoterism distinguish Vajrayana Buddhism, it is, from the Tibetan Buddhist point of view, nonetheless primarily a form of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | The other conspicuous aspect of Vajrayana Buddhism is that it is esoteric. | | | 'Vajrayāna Buddhism, also known as Tantric Buddhism, Mantrayana, Tantrayana, Esoteric Buddhism, '"Diamond Vehicle" or "True Words Sect", is often viewed as the third major 'vehicle' (Yana) of Buddhism, alongside the Hinayana and Mahayana. |
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| | * Buddhism - (Esoteric): Definition |
| | Buddhism the religious philosophy taught by Gautama Buddha. | | | Buddhism is not one religion and philosophy but two. | | | A Japanese term meaning "meditation." It is a major school of Japanese that claims to transmit the spirit of Buddhism, or the total enlightenment as achieved by the founder of the religion, the Buddha... |
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http://www.bestknows.com/esoteric/buddhism.html
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| | Esoteric Buddhism (from Buddhism) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | More from Britannica on "Esoteric Buddhism (from Buddhism)"... | | | Mystical practices and esoteric sects are to be found in all forms of Buddhism. | | | More results on "Esoteric Buddhism (from Buddhism)" when you join. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-68731
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| | Spell Kings of Esoteric Buddhism: Gohonzon Shu: Lotus Sutra Mandalas... | | | The Buddhist kasaya is the symbol of Buddhism, and it's also a Buddhist's flag... | | | In esoteric Buddhism the principle in the mandala is the presence of the Buddha in it, but images... |
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http://www.thetattoosite.com/tattoo/buddhism_symbol.html
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| | Esoteric Buddhism - Wikibooks |
| | The Esoteric Buddhism is unique and requires the study of the Exoteric Buddhism as the foundation and puts the Esoteric Buddhism as the most advanced form of Buddhism. | | | The doctrine of the Esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism is based on Mahavairocana-sutra, and Kalacakraindriya-sutra. | | | There are two parts to it: the Exoteric and the Esoteric Buddhism. |
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Esoteric_Buddhism
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| | Tibetan Buddhism |
| | The Tibetan Buddhism requests the study of the Exoteric Buddhism as the foundation and puts the Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism as the most advanced form of Buddhism. | | | The Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, which is different from all other Esoteric Buddhisms, makes the Tibetan Buddhism unique. | | | Tantric) Buddhism is based on `Mahavairocana-sutra', and `Kalacakraindriya-sutra'. |
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http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~wtv/tibet/tbuddha.html
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| | Esoteric Buddhism became an important aspect of the Tendai school which was primarily focused on the Lotus Sutra, an exoteric text. | | | Esoteric Buddhism is "a complex system of icons, meditative rituals, and ritual languages, all of which aim at enabling the practitioners to immediately grasp abstract Buddhist doctrines through actual ritual experiences". | | | Although Buddhism was the state religion, the Japanese people didn't really have freedom of religion at this time. |
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http://www.apawn.com/search.php?title=Kukai
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| | Buddhism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | However, Buddhism there was supplanted by the introduction of (The monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran) Islam around (The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100) 1000. | | | While in the West Buddhism is often seen as exotic and progressive, in the East Buddhism is regarded as familiar and part of the establishment. | | | While Buddhism does not deny the existence of supernatural beings (indeed, many are discussed in Buddhist scripture), it does not ascribe power for creation, salvation or judgement to them. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/b/bu/buddhism.htm
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| | CSI: Ram 1 |
| | As is well known, esoteric Buddhism maintains that an infinite number of mantras exist; such multiplicity, however, is the result of the combinatory of the Sanskrit alphabet as described in the Dainichiky¿ and in the Kong¿ch¿gy¿, the two main scriptures of the Shingon school. | | | Esoteric Buddhism is the totality of discursive practices used to construct such a multilayered signifying system and to decodify it. | | | Esoteric Buddhism in particular generated an interesting and very powerful semiotic model, that spread to other Buddhist schools and also outside of the Buddhist discourse. |
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http://chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/cyber/ram1.html
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| | The World of Jin-Gang-Dhyana - Baochu Holy Realm series no. 1 - Xizi Holy Tantra Words |
| | If Holy Tantra Esoteric Buddhism is regarded as the "study of Holy Tantra Esoteric Buddhism", then chuan cheng Dharma system is the "study of Holy Tantra Esoteric Buddhism chuan cheng". | | | The "study of Holy Tantra Esoteric Buddhism chuan cheng" is a member system of the gigantic system of "study of Holy Tantra Esoteric Buddhism." | | | Holy Tantra Esoteric Buddhism's chuan cheng in India, according to the lineage network of Dharma nature chuan cheng, transmitting according to the Dharma under the auspices of Patron Buddha the Great Sage Sakyamuni, are divided into three transmissions: |
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http://www.jingangdhyanaincnet.org/e43c/e431a1a1.html
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| | Bibliography of Yogācāra Studies |
| | Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. | | | Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogācāra Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun. | | | Existence and Enlightenment in the Lan.kāvatāra-Sūtra: A Study in the Ontology and Epistemology of the Yogācāra School of Mahāyāna Buddhism. |
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| | The esoteric aspects of Tibetan Buddhism derive from Padmasambhava's origins as a professor of Tantric Yoga at the Buddhist University in Nalanda, India, and his reputed skills in occultism. | | | The form of Buddhism that developed in Tibet in the 8th century is sometimes referred to as Tantric or Esoteric Buddhism, because it grew in part out of Indian Tantric practicies. | | | He made Buddhism the state religion after converting from Bon, the indigenous religion of Tibet that combined shamanism, ritual divination, exorcism, and burial rites with belief in the doctrine of rebirth. |
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http://www.myss.com/worldreligions/Buddhism5.asp
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| | Esoteric Buddhism Tantric Buddhism |
| | The Chinese Tantric Buddhism, Hanmi Buddhism, was established from 712 to 720 A.D. by Subhakarasimha, Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra. | | | The lineages of Esoteric Buddhism, or Tantric Buddhism, basically can be grouped either as Indo-Tibetan or as Sino-Japanese. | | | Some major schools in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, sometimes known as Lamaism, are Nyingmapa, Gadampa, Kagyupa, Sakyapa and Gelugpa. |
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| | Esoteric traditions in China and Japan (from Buddhism) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | During the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries the Vajrayana forms of Esoteric Buddhism that were developing in India spread to Southeast Asia (for example, to Indonesia, where Esoteric teachings were an important component in the symbolism of the great Buddhist stupa at Borobudur) and to East Asia. | | | Tibetan Buddhism also incorporates the monastic disciplines of early Theravada Buddhism and the shamanistic features of the... | | | Buddhism is a dominant faith in Cambodian society. |
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| | Kobo Daishi (Kukai), the founder of Shingon Buddhism, was born in the town of Zentsuji in Kagawa Prefecture in Japan in 774. | | | Shingon is a form of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, it is also called Shingon Mikkyo. | | | Shingon Buddhism grants salvation and enlightenment to human beings who would otherwise be caught in the cycle of birth and death. |
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http://www.koyasan.org/nckoyasan/introduction.html
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| | Esoteric Buddhism by A.P.Sinnett |
| | The fact is, however, that esoteric Buddhism, though by no means divorced from the associations of exoteric Buddhism, must not be conceived to constitute a mere imperium in imperio - a central school of culture in the vortex of the Buddhist world. | | | And the esoteric doctrine is thus regarded by those of all creeds who are “enlightened” (in the Buddhist sense) as the absolute truth concerning Nature, Man, the origin of the Universe, and the destinies toward which its inhabitants are tending. | | | Esoteric science, though interesting itself mainly with matters generally regarded as appertaining to religion, would not be the complete comprehensive and trustworthy system that it is, if it failed to bring all the facts of earth life into harmony with its doctrines. |
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http://www.theosophical.ca/EsotericBuddhism.htm
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| | The Esoteric Tradition by G. de Purucker, Homepage |
| | Esoteric Buddhism and the existence of a succession of Teachers in the history of Buddhism. | | | Fundamental doctrines of Buddhism: The Eightfold Path and the Four Noble Verities. | | | Evidence of existence of a system of esoteric teaching in Buddhism. |
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| | Zen and the Pure Esoteric School |
| | The Shingon sect Esoteric Buddhism that went over to Japan from China is called "Eastern Esoteric Buddhism" as opposed to the "Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism" found in Tibet. | | | Esoteric Buddhism is essentially based on the Mahavairocana Sutra that talks about the primordial Buddha Vairocana, who is also called the Great Sun Tathagata. | | | The Esoteric Buddhism of this period was known by a number of different names such as the Tantrayana (Tantric Buddhism, or Tantra), Mantrayana (the Mantra Vehicle) and Vajrayana (the Diamond Vehicle, or Vajra Vehicle) school. |
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| | The Esoteric doctrine does not content itself with a mere metaphysical juggling with these terms, but goes to the length of claiming to explain the method of universal evolution and the hidden things in nature. | | | In the Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Edwin Arnold under the title of The Song Celestial, the entire doctrine called Esoteric Buddhism may be found; and this book is held in the highest esteem by both Brahmans and Buddhists. | | | In briefly considering the matter then, it must be understood that we are not confined solely to Buddhism but to what would be more properly called the "Esoteric doctrine," which underlies Brahmanism and Buddhism alike. |
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http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/books/wqj-all/j-esoteric.htm
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| | Kukai went to China from 804 to 806 to study esoteric Buddhism. | | | Major Japanese school of esoteric Buddhism, and the most important esoteric school outside India and Tibet. | | | He developed his own synthesis of esoteric practice and doctrine, centred on the cosmic Buddha Vairocana. |
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http://www.compsoc.net/~gemini/simons/historyweb/shingon.html
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| | Mikkyō: The Art of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism |
| | Practitioners of Esoteric Buddhism undertake years of training which are necessary to master its complex tenets and rituals. | | | Fundamental to Esoteric Buddhism is the belief that Enlightenment can be achieved in this lifetime, rather than in some distant future, through the correct performance of complicated rites and magical practices. | | | Others, such as vajras and vajra-handled bells, are unique to the practice of Esoteric Buddhism. |
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| | CSI: Ram 2 |
| | Zenmui, 637-735), the founder of Chinese esoteric Buddhism. | | | According to Shingon esoteric Buddhism, the capacity to recognize such a cosmic sermon and participate in it is essential for the attainment of enlightenment. | | | In Buddhism, therefore, ignorance is a metaphysical error, for it consists in mistaking the true reality of the universe with the cultural realm of semiosis, articulated and articulable, and even with psycho-mental phenomena, that are representations generated by the deluded mind. |
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| | SHINGON: Japanese Esoteric Buddhism by Taiko Yamasaki ($16.95, paperback, Shambhala, ISBN: 0877734437) This survey of the general tenets of Japanese esoteric Buddhism offers several scholarly features such as a glossary of key terms with Sanskrit equivalents. | | | This is a solid introduction for anyone interested in the living esoteric Buddhism of Japan. | | | This general introduction to Shingon Buddhism offers the fundamentals of faith and ritual practice. |
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| | Theosophy article "'Esoteric Buddhism' and the 'Secret Doctrine'" by Blavatsky |
| | Sinnett's exposition are "not Buddhism, esoteric nor exoteric," they will have to make away with the thousands of Brahminical Adwaita and other Vedantin writings--the works of Sankaracharya in particular--from which it can be proved that precisely the same doctrines are taught in those works esoterically. | | | N reference to various remarks concerning "Esoteric Buddhism" which appear in the course of your new work, "The Secret Doctrine," I beg to call your attention to some passages on the same subject which appeared on former occasions in the Theosophist at a time when that magazine was edited by yourself. | | | Judge that nearly all the leading ideas of the doctrine embodied in "Esoteric Buddhism" are to be found in the Bhagavad Gita. |
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http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/EsotericBuddhismAndTheSecretDoctrine.htm
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| | Vajrayana Buddhism on Encyclopedia.com |
| | ETC./Bon to Buddhism: Lecture on history of religions in Tibet | | | Esoteric Buddhism in Southeast Asia in the light of recent scholarship.(Book Review) | | | Buddhism in America: an ancient religion grows ever stronger roots in a new world, with the help of the movies, pop culture and the politics of repressed Tibet.(Cover Story) |
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| | Amazon.com: Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement: Books: Ronald M. Davidson,Ron Davidson |
| | Ronald M. Davidson's book on "Indian Esoteric Buddhism" is not for those unfamiliar with the history of India or with the development of Buddhism, but it does not require advanced knowledge to follow his argument. | | | Indo-Tibetan Buddhism : Indian Buddhists & Their Tibetan Successors by David Snellgrove | | | Thus, it's a newly revamped 'degeneration of buddhism' theory, despite the fact that this is a living religion, and that consultation of those who still practice it yields more valuable insights than an ordinary devotee of scholar ego. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0231126190?v=glance
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| | Esoteric Tantric Buddhism in Tibet Symposium |
| | Initially, Buddhism had been disseminated into Tibetan regions from India, China, and Central Asia; during the second dissemination, India was the primary source. | | | The symposium will focus on Tibetan religion during the period that began with the second dissemination of Buddhism into Tibet in the late 10th century. | | | With the re-establishment of some political centralization in Central and Western Tibet, a second dissemination of Buddhism began. |
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| | Mikkyō: The Art of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism |
| | For the celebrant, the goal of the goma ceremony is to burn away ignorance with the fire that is understood to be the wisdom of the Buddha and to realize Enlightenment. | | | The goal of the exhibition, Mikkyō—The Art of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism is to explore the relationship between art and practice in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism that Kūkai so eloquently describes. | | | Indeed, more than in any other sect, efficacious practice in Esoteric Buddhism is dependent on works of art. |
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| | Koyasan and Shingon Esoteric Buddhism |
| | By the 12th month Kukai had entered the capital of Chang-an and been admitted as a student of the master of esoteric Buddhism I lui-kuo, who is today recognized as the seventh in the Shingon lineage of eight patriarchs. | | | It was apparently his experience with this contemplative practice that fired his deep interest in Buddhism. | | | But Kukai's activity was not limited merely to the promulgation of Buddhist practice of his Shingon school. |
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| | Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: Comparison of Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism, A |
| | Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: Comparison of Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism, A | | | He asserts that only through the esoteric teachings can one attain Buddhahood in one's present form, and that the esoteric teachings can save all people, even those who cannot be saved by the exoteric teachings. | | | From source: The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism |
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| | While acknowledging, however, the phenomena of Spiritualism to be scientific, I have been enabled by some study to see their rationale, and to rise to Esoteric Truth, which masters of Occultism and Theosophists can understand. | | | IR, -- May I be allowed to say some words once more upon the subject of Esoteric Buddhism. | | | It would not be real modesty to refrain from asserting that no one with so-called normal powers can know nearly so much of Buddhism as the prominent members of the Theosophical Society. |
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| | KUKAI'S INITIATION IN THE ESOTERIC BUDDHISM |
| | In Shingon Buddhism the mysteries are transmitted orally from master to disciple. | | | This Esoteric Buddhism became the most important religion of Heian Japan. | | | The abbot informed me that the Esoteric scriptures are so abstruse that their meaning cannot be conveyed except through art. |
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| | Three Mystics of Esoteric Buddhism |
| | To practise Esoteric Buddhism, so as to attain enlightenment within one's life time, there are six essentials: | | | Chapter Twelve - The True Meanings of Practising the Three Mystics of Esoteric Buddhism | | | Practise the three mystics, offer alms to the personal deity; the same as Mahayana's Five Precepts and Ten Wholesome Actions. |
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| | JBE: East Asian Buddhist Studies: A Reference Guide |
| | Iwanami Bukkyoo jiten [The Iwanami Dictionary of Buddhism]. | | | Introduction to the Study of Buddhism according to the Material Preserved in Japan and China. | | | Kuukai jiten [Dictionary of Early Japanese Esoteric Buddhism]. |
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| | Primarily dedicated to the study of Chinese Buddhism. | | | The purpose and mission of this website is to share information concerning the Shin Buddhist (Jodo Shinshu) tradition and Pure Land Buddhism as it is presently practiced and interpreted by Shin communities in the West and Japan. | | | The Institute of Buddhist Studies is dedicated to preparing women and men for lives of ministry in the tradition of the Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha, and to fostering the understanding and development of Shin Buddhist thought in engagement with the issues and perspectives of contemporary life |
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| | Carlos Castaneda - Tibetan Buddhism - Enlightenment |
| | Castaneda, stopping the world, the double, the assemblage point, Tibetan Buddhism, Adi Da | | | Guide To Don Juan's Nagualism and Esoteric Buddhism | | | Castaneda, nondual Shaivism, Adi Da Samraj, Tibetan Buddhism, Enlightenment, Mind-Body Entheogens, Video and Music |
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| | Esoteric Buddhism |
| | Esoteric Japanese Buddhism is called Himitu Bukkyou. | | | This Profound Program is being offered in conjunction with RMMS Annual Teacher’s Program in Park City. Esoteric Buddhism is open to the PUBLIC as well as those attending Teachers Programs |
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| | Esoteric Buddhism |
| | This site was founded to help people better understand Buddhism, in all it's forms.We have set up many texts and links, that will go in-depth into Buddhist study.This site's main purpose, is to highlight Esoteric Buddhism.To get you started...click on the top book pic. | | | Come back often...there will be updates, almost weekly.Let me know what you think...and if there is anything you would like to see, on this site. |
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| | Mikkyō: The Art of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism |
| | Mikkyō–The Art of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism should correct some of that imbalance. | | | Only a small number of monographs explore the history of the tradition and its patriarchs, and only one exhibition held in Köln in 1988 has been devoted exclusively to the art of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, and this was limited to the Shingon sect. | | | It will be the first exhibition to examine Mikkyō from a perspective that breaks down the traditional sectarian barriers between Shingon and Tendai which are particularly prevalent in Japan. |
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| | Esoteric and Tantric Buddhism |
| | Legend of the Origins of the Esoteric Teachings | | | The Exoteric Teaching (Kengyo) and the Esoteric Teaching (Mikkyo) Kukai | | | Open to websites with anything about Korea or Japan! |
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