Tag: yamabushi
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Viral Dancing Nuns
To modern Western culture, the dancing nun is a contradiction in terms, or a merely laughable moment that peaks on social media for a while, and is just as soon forgotten. But I would argue the import of the dancing nun is far more profound.
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Shinrin Yoku III: The Way of Shugendo
In 1991, 23 year old Ryojun Shionuma, embarked on a spiritual pilgrimage that would take him nine years to complete by running up and down the sacred Mt. Omine in Japan for one thousand days. This unique spiritual discipline was started by “a mountain priest named En-no-Gyoja, who, in the late 600s, meditated for a…