[Buddha-l] Extreme practice

[Weng-Fai Wong]

Kansei-san

You are right - my memory is failing me. My apologies to Shingon.

W.F. Wong

Kansei wrote:
> 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.
>
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