Shingon
A living tradition within Vajrayāna. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Shingon is a living tradition within Vajrayāna. Also written Shingonshū.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Kūkai (774–835). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Araki names Kūkai (774–835) as founder of Shingonshū in the Heian period, focused on Esoteric Buddhism. With Tendai it is one of the two Heian schools. No founding year.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Shingon.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-shingon.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Shingon},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-shingon},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.