Word: ryusenji
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...snake than a woman," say the Buddhist priests of the Shugen sect, who worship the Eight Dragon God, Hachidai Ryuo, at the temple of Japan's Mount Sanjogatake. For 1,300 years the Shugen monks have seen to it that no female climbed their mountain or entered their Ryusenji Temple. Undisturbed, they practiced their ascetic disciplines-walking barefoot through fires of logs and leaves while reciting sutras, plunging into freezing pools, hanging by their ankles over vertiginous cliffs while confessing their sins. (A favorite fillip of the monks is to dangle novices carelessly over a cliff, pretending...
...medium and rural sorceress to whom people come for advice on marriage and business. This particular miko had a large following of women in what the Japanese politely call "the water trades"-prostitutes, bar hostesses, geishas. The miko told them to worship the Eight Dragon God at the Ryusenji Temple. That tore it. Last week at Ryusenji, 200 dignitaries, headed by the Governor of Nara, chanted sutras and presented altar lilies to the brand-new vermilion temple, which was being dedicated to replace the old one, burned down in 1946. And 500 women arrived in buses and uprooted the stone...
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