Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion Book by Andrea Castiglioni Takeshi Miyagi Tsubaki Kotengu-ryu Bojutsu

Tsubaki Kotengu-ryu Bojutsu

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Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion Book by Andrea Castiglioni Takeshi Miyagi Tsubaki Kotengu-ryu BojutsuDefining Shugendo brings together leading international experts on Japanese mountain asceticism to discuss what has been an essential component of Japanese religions for more than a thousand years. Contributors explore how mountains have been abodes of deities, a resting place for the dead, sources of natural bounty and calamities, places of religious activities, and a vast repository of symbols. The book shows that many peoples have chosen them as