Practitioner’s Episode 4 - "What is Shugendo?" With An-Shu Stephen K. Hayes
Carving the Divine TV Podcast
English - February 03, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBBuddhism Religion & Spirituality buddhism buddha japan japanese buddhism busshi dalai lama religion spirituality history japanese history Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Hosted by filmmaker Yujiro Seki, Carving the Divine TV Podcast is a series of Q&A sessions with Buddhist scholars and practitioners. These Q&A sessions explore the basic concepts of Buddhism and the history of Buddhism so that when listeners finally watch the documentary film "Carving the Divine - Buddhist Sculptors of Japan" they will get the maximum value of the documentary. In this special episode, we will have a Shugendo Practitioner, An-Shu Stephen K. Hayes, to discuss the basic concept of Shugendo.
We will ask important questions such as:
1. What is Shugendo? How did An-Shu get involved?
2. What is a brief history of Shugendo (if we can address that in what is shugendo we don’t need to address this question)?
3. Is Shugendo Buddhism?
4. What is the difference between Shugenja and Yamabushi?
5. How do you practice Shugen?
6. Do you do this mountain practice in America?
7. What is Yamabuchi training in the mountain?
8. What is Gyoja Daibosatsu ho?
9. What is Shugen view of Buddhist sculptures?
Stephen K. Hayes has spent his entire adult life in pursuit of perfection through the Asian martial arts and spiritual traditions. In 1983, he began his study of Shugendo with Japanese teachers. He was ordained as a teacher of the esoteric Buddhist tradition in 1991. He regularly served in the 1990s as personal protection escort and security advisor for the Dalai Lama of Tibet. He has studied the Sakya Tibetan practice of Vajrakilaya since 1996, visiting monasteries in Tibet, India, and Nepal to find lessons. He received the Shugendo title Dai Sendatsu “Great Path Leader” in 2014. He is the author of 23 books which translate the timeless knowledge of the East into pragmatic lessons for contemporary Western life. He spends much of the year traveling the world as a teacher, translating his background in martial and meditation arts into practical lessons for handling the pressures and uncertainties of life.
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