6/21/2023 0 Comments Kukai“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.”— Kukai
"You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others."- Kukai Kūkai (空海; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835[1]), born Saeki no Mao (佐伯 眞魚),[ posthumously called Kōbō Daishi (弘法大師, "The Grand Master who Propagated the Dharma"), was a Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. During a period of private Buddhist practice, Kūkai had a dream, in which a man appeared and told Kūkai that the Mahavairocana Tantra is the scripture which contained the doctrine Kūkai was seeking. Though Kūkai soon managed to obtain a copy of this sutra which had only recently become available in Japan, he immediately encountered difficulty. Much of the sutra was in untranslated Sanskrit written in the Siddhaṃ script. Kūkai found the translated portion of the sutra was very cryptic. Because Kūkai could find no one who could elucidate the text for him, he resolved to go to China to study the text there. In 813 Kūkai outlined his aims and practices in the document called The admonishments of Konin. It was also during this period at Takaosan that he completed many of the seminal works of the Shingon School: -Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence -The Meaning of Sound, Word, Reality -Meanings of the Word Hūm For those who know.
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