Shingon

Glossar

Japanisch	Aussprache	Bedeutung
菩提心	bodaishin	Herz der Erleuchtung Erleuchtungsgeist
梵字	bonji	Siddham-Keimsilbe
大日如来	dainichi nyorai	Sanskrit: Vairocana Buddha als Verkörperung des Dharmakaya universeller Buddha
遍照金剛	henjôkongô	universelles Licht der Weisheit etw., das die ganze Welt erleuchtet und das von unzerstörbarer Festigkeit ist (andere Bez. für Mahâvairocana).
加持	kaji	Sanskrit: Adhiṣṭhāna Gesundbeten, Beschwörung. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhi%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%ADh%C4%81na mit externer Kraft (他力)
華厳経	kegonkyô	Kegon-Sūtra, Avataṃsaka-Sūtra.
密教	mikkyô	wörtl. "Geheimlehre". Tantrischer Buddhismus in Japan. esoterischer Buddhismus (Mizongvajrayāna, tantrayāna, mantrayāna). <=> kengyō 顕教
弥勒菩薩	miroku bosatsu	Maitreya-Bodhisattva; Maitreya; Miroku (Buddha, der in der Zukunft in dieser Welt erscheinen wird, um die Lebewesen zu retten).
如来	nyorai	Sanskrit: tathagata Jemand Erleuchtetes am bekanntesten in Japan: Amida, Yakushi, Miroku, Dainichi
入我我入	nyuga ganyu	Buddha kommt in mir, ich werde zu Buddha.
お経	okyô	Sutra
三密	sanmitsu	Drei Mysterien von Körper, Rede und Sinn (Geist/spirituelles Herz) Segnungen durch Buddhas Körper, Rede und Geist Wirken von Buddhas Körper, Rede und Geist
釈迦如来	shaka nyorai	japanischer Name für Shakyamuni, Gautama Buddha.
悉曇	shittan	Siddham (Symbole)
即身成仏	sokushinjôbutsu	Erlangung der Buddhaschaft noch zu Lebzeiten

Rituale

• Siddham (Symbole) betrachten und visualisieren
• Mantras (heilige Worte) rezitieren
• Mudras (Handpositionen) formen

Mantra

• urspgl. sanskirt: "manas" + "tra": Schutz des spirituellen Herzens
  • manas: Geist, spirituelles Herz
  • tra: Schutz, Instrument, Ritualgerät
• wahre (heilige) Worte (jap.: Shingon, 真言)
• kurze magische Formeln zur Rezitation
• setzen sich aus einem oder mehreren Siddham-Keimsilben zusammen
• Aussprache zur Aktivierung eines oder mehrerer Symbole. Symbole werden durch Mantras wirkkräftig.
• Manche Mantras haben eine Bedeutung, andere wirken nur durch ihren Klang.

Mikkyo and Kengyo

Kengyo, however, disclaims the Mikkyo theory of the personified Dharma. (MK-SB 1209)

In practice, therefore, there is no difference between Shingon Mikkyo and Kengyo, but the rationale involved in practice is different. (MK-SB L1609)

Kengyo conceives kalpa as a duration of time. But Mikkyo conceives it as the substance of delusion, the premise being that enlightenment is not a matter to be realized in term of a duration of time. (MK-SB L1611)

Kengyo conceives dasabhumi? as graded stages of practice; Shingon Mikkyo conceives it as the embodiment of a variety of virtues, not stages to eliminate something or to gain something. (MK-SB L1774)

Shingon Mikkyo remains a 'secret' only to those who are incapable of understanding the true nature of existence but no longer remains so to those who have understood that nature. (MK-SB L2036)

Shingon und Mahayana

Shingon is a school of Mahayana which attempts to reveal the world of Dharmakaya Mahavairocana. (MK-SB L844)

Generally, Mahayana presupposes that Buddha-nature is inherent in all beings. (MK-SB L914)

Shingon, unlike Kegon, does not speak of one becoming a Buddha (a concept which presupposes a duration of time), because it presupposes that one already is a Buddha, that inherent in him is Buddha-nature. (MK-SB L1642)

Mahayana enlightenment is contingent upon enlightening others. (MK-SB L1029)

Madhyamaka

Shingon is neither a school of dualism nor of non-dualism. Its logic follows that of Madhyamika. (MK-SH 1004)

Madhyamaka bedeutet: „Lehre des Mittleren Weges“

• Theravada: „Pfad der Entsagung“.
• Mahayana:
  • Vajrayana: „Lehre des Mittleren Weges“
  • Sutra-System des Mahayana: „Pfad der Ansammlung"

Zwei Wahrheiten

Madhyamika posits two levels of truth, the 'supreme' (insight into emptiness) and the 'conventional' (insight into co-arising). (Minoru Kiyota, Shingon Buddhism, L498)

Ekayana

Nevertheless, as mentioned before, Shingon, like Tendai and Kegon, is Ekayana. (MK-SB L1649)

The inherent theory is based upon the notion that all things are implicit in one. This notion, again, is not an original idea of Kukai. It is Ekayana. (MK-SB L1734)

All in one

The 'one-in-all' is the doctrinal basis for the honji theory, while the 'all-inone' is the doctrinal basis for the kaji theory. (MK-SB, L1181)

t is in this context-in the context of "l-in-Buddha" and "Buddha-in-me"that Shingon claims that the Dharmakiiya per se is capable of communicating the Dharma. (MK-SB, L1537)