[Buddha-l] Query--forest tradition monks in Japan today?

[jkirk]

Doesn't bushi mean warrior, as in bushido?
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  From: Piya Tan 
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  Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 12:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Query--forest tradition monks in Japan today?


  This is very interesting: I know "yama" means "mountain"; what does "bushi" mean.
  Perhaps yamabushi simply means "mountain monk".

  It would be interesting to know how the Dharma is transmitted through their "lineage."

  Piya

   
  On 11/10/06, Kate Marshall <marshallarts at bigpond.com> wrote: 
    Hi Joanna,

    Last year, a friend, who practised as a Yamabushi for some time, mentioned
    that there were still various forms of Yamabushi in Japan.  Unless anything 
    has happened since then, no doubt they are still there.

    While sometimes stemming from or being connected to Shingon and Tendai, many
    forms of Yamabushi possess their own distinct lineages of teachers and
    teaching.  Other groups are purely Shinto.  Also there are individual
    Yamabushi who do not belong to any of the main sects.  Plus there are 'part
    timers' who live in the mountains for purposes of meditation or as a shugyo 
    (ritual purification) practice.  Some of the Buddhist Yamabushi act as
    healers or prophets.  Apparently, Yamabushi are known as Khutarsi in
    Sanskrit and Shan Hsien in Chinese, though I don't have any more information 
    on this.

    Regards
    Tenshin


    > Being a fan of but not an expert on Japan, I write to ask if anyone can
    tell
    > me if today there are still wandering forest monks in Japan, of any
    Buddhist 
    > tradition, not just Zen. My impression has been that the forest tradition
    > sort of died out there. But perhaps that's a misapprehension.

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