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📄a commentary on the texts dedicated to acalanātha vidyārāja.

📄 shugendō ft. dr. gaynor sekimori [book].

📄a commentary on the nine verses of the shakujo / kujō shakujō [book].
📄living in the practice - an interview with dai-ajari mitsunaga kakudō.

📄an annotated translation of the haguro-ha shugendō teiyō.
📄a brief history of haguro shugen & kotakuji-shozenin.

📄tracing the origins of esoteric buddhism.
📄 a brief history of kannonji.
📄an introduction to bonji (siddhaṃ) bija.
📄lion's roar: shugendō's dharma-conch [book].
📄learning from the thirty-three sections of shugen [book].
📄the tales of en no gyōja.

📄the heart of the saddharmapuṇḍarīka sūtra.
📄 approaching sanpō kōjin.

📄 shugendō and the spirt of the mahāyāna.

📄miyagi shinga: collected works [book].

📄to patiently endure: notes from private interview:
       'in dialogue with dai-ajari mitsunaga kakudō'.
📄mountain faith - mountain entry - mountin asceticism [book].

📄ikebana from the perspective of shugen.

📄the five eyes of avalokiteśvara.

📄the heart of the prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya sūtra.

📄the twelve devas of the maṇḍala.

📄an annotated translation of the commentaries of jichie and toganoo shōnin.
📄an annotated translation of the autumn peak's hokke senpō.
📄an annotated aranslation of the sanzan gongyō sahō.
📄an annotated translation of the threefold structure of the autumn peak.

📄mountain-language and shugendō.

📄1400 years: nōjo shōja & en no gyōja

📄on kaji-kitō.

📄treatise on the lord of mind and its retinue.

📄notes on the essential chapters of the vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā sūtra

distro

— shimmer 
— the wild edge of sorrow 

— crisis! ipswich-brisbane homelessness handbook    
— stories for dreaming an other world

— anpernirrentye       

— iwenhe tyerrtye       

— dingo makes us human

— how big is the world
— in the absence of the ordinary

— yawulyu

— qsa buddhist chaplaincy handbook

— animism in contemporary japan

— don't forget those on the inside: prisons and mutual accompaniment
— the politics of ritual: kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge
— melancholy without the gods
— the buddha’s teaching and the ambiguity of existence

Abgrund /ˈapɡʁʊnt/

Chasm, Abyss

writings from within the world

of shugen and esoteric buddhism

"..This abyss is a trial imposed from the beginning upon all; unless you overcome this trial, you cannot move forward as a practitioner. It is also thus the path of all practitioners - the chasm between self, other and the buddhas must be crossed.."

— Mitsunaga Kakudo, Dai-Ajari