The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2255 page)

Shugend
.

Japanese Buddhist mountain devotion. The sect was founded by En-no-Ozunu (born
c.
635 CE), hence it is also known as En-no-gy
ja. From the age of 32, he devoted himself for thirty years to esoteric Buddhism on Mount Katsuragi until he attained miraculous powers. He developed ascetic mountain Buddhism by teaching ways of entering into the strength of mountains. He was exiled in 699, pardoned two years later, and died shortly after. Mountain Buddhists develop esoteric powers, and are known as
yamabushi
or
shugenja
.

 
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Sh
h
My
ch
,
also known as Daito Kokushi

(1282–1338)
. A Zen master of the
Rinzai
school, dharma-successor (
hassu
) of
Sh
my
, and one of the founders of the
-t
-kan lineage. He was the founder and first abbot of Daitoku-ji in
Ky
to
, where he insisted on strict and rigorous observance.

 
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