[Buddha-l] Extreme practice

[Kansei]

Weng-Fai Wong wrote:
> There is a form of very strenuous mountain walking practice called Gyo done
> by the Shingon sect in Japan. I even watched a documentary on it. It
> featured this Shingon priest who has done it several times, each time
> challenging death.
Dear Weng-Fai Wong,

what you are describing sounds very much like the 回峰行 Kaihogyo 
practice in the 天台宗 Tendai school of
Japanese Buddhism (千日回峰行).
see these links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06oMxdt40A
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2004/s1199164.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaihogyo


M. Kansei N.