shu (discipline, conduct oneself well, study, master)
gen (testing, verification, effect)
dô (way, journey, course, moral, teachings)

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❖ A form of Japanese folk religion, based on mountain worship, and formed under the influence of butsu, dôkyô, onmyôdô, and other religions
❖ The name shugen is derived from the term genriki, which refers to special powers acquired as the result of shugyô performed within the mountains

gen (testing, verification, effect)
riki (power, strong)
genrirki (literally: testing power)

en (family name)
no (implied possessive particle)
gyô (vocation, performance)
ja (someone, person)

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en (family name)
no (possessive particle)
gyô (vocation, performance)
ja (someone, person)

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❖ en the ascetic
❖ Legendary founder of shugendô and the yamabushi
❖ Also called en no ozunu, ozuno, en no shôkaku, en no ubasoku

en (family name)
no (implied possessive particle)
o (little, small)
zunu (angle, corner, square, horn, antlers)
ozunu (unclassified name)

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o (little, small)
zuno | tsuno (angle, corner, square, horn, antlers)

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en (family name)
no (possessive particle)
shô (little, small)
kaku (angle, corner, square, horn, antlers)

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en (family name)
no (implied possessive particle)
u (tenderness, excel, surpass, actor, superiority, gentleness)
ba (old woman, grandma, wet nurse)
soku (close, shut, cover, block, obstruct)
ubasoku (devout male lay follower of Buddhism)

gon (authority, power, rights)
gen (present, existing, actual)

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❖ Incarnation; avatar
❖ Protective deity usually associated with a mountain

ke (hair, fur)
bô (priest)
zu (lord, chief, master)
bôzu (Buddhist priest, bonze, person with a shorn head)
kebôzu (hairy / unshaven Buddhist priest)

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❖ Unofficial Buddhist priest not attached to a temple

ken (verification, testing)
za | sha (someone, person)

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❖ Mountain ascetic
❖ Practitioner of mountain asceticism – shugendô
❖ One who has been tested and accumulated power
❖ Also called kenja

ken (cleverness, intelligent, wisdom, wise)
ja | sha (someone, person)
kenja (sage)

shu (discipline, conduct oneself well, study, master)
gen (verification, effect, testing)
ja | sha (someone, person)

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❖ A practitioner of shugendô
❖ Mountain ascetic

shu (discipline, conduct oneself well, study, master)
gyô (vocation, performance)

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❖ Religious practices

shu (discipline, conduct oneself well, study, master)
gyô (vocation, performance)
sha (someone, person)

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❖ Practitioner of austerities

yama (mountain)
bushi | fushi (bend, bow, prostrate, hide)

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❖ (mountain priest, itinerant Buddhist monk)