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

[Piya Tan]

Does San Hsien translate "mountain immortal". Hsien is made up of the
radical for "man" (ren) + the character for mountain (san).



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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