In modern use, the term ubasoku-yamabushi refers to laymen practitioners of shugendō. The religion places a heavy emphasis on asceticism and feats of endurance, and white and saffron-robed yamabushi toting a horagai conch-shell trumpet are still a common sight near the shugendō holy site of Dewa Sanzan and in the sacred mountains of Kumano and O...
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(from the article `Shugen-d`) ...Japanese religious tradition combining folk beliefs with indigenous Shint and Buddhism, to which have been added elements of Chinese religious ... Various sorts of popular faiths flourished also in the cities and villages of Edo times. Shugend, for example, was an ancient form of ascetic ... ...founde...
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Members of the Shugendō sect of Buddhism thought to have mysterious powers, such as the ability to cast out demons.
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