JR offers a variety of special rail tickets covering the Tōhoku region. Although there are good transport links between the main cities (including a recently extended Shinkansen service to Aomori), you’ll need to allow plenty of time to explore the more remote corners of northern Honshū – t...
There are, too, attempts to reconstruct nyiih rituals from the few documents, illustrated handscrolls (emaki) and oral traditions which survive. Thus, the value of such lore is coming at last to be recognized. Shugendo, being a popular mystery religion, was hardly recorded in writing, and ...
presuppositionin at least most of the conceptualizationsof MahayanaBuddhism so far is that it is one pole of a binary set, that is, it is seen in opposition to something else, some other form of Buddhism.The question then arises how the two are related.Dependingon who is talking,the ...