Ayoung Buddhist monk crossed the sea to China as a member of a Japanese mission sent there during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). That monk was Kukai (774-835), also known posthumously as Kobo-Daishi. In ...
The agricultural cycle corresponds to our spiritual work, and thus on a more fundamental level, Sukkos is called Chag Ha’asif ...
As we saw in the previous installment of this series, eighth-century Japan finally succeeded in importing the three elements (Buddhist images, the “Dharma,” or law, and the “sangha,” or community of ...
From the ninth century CE, two esoteric schools (Shingon and Tendai) took on a dominant role in Japanese Buddhism and laid down the foundations for almost all subsequent developments in the centuries ...
The thing about astrology is that once you know a little bit about it, you quickly realize how much you don’t know. It’s a language with an almost infinite amount of dialects. It’s not a one-size-fits ...
The popular notion of Kabbalah – the Kabbalah of red strings, holy water, and incantations – has attracted a following in recent years among Hollywood celebrities and others. This type of “Kabbalah” ...
The Daily Zohar for the day of Yom Kippur tells a simple but incredibly powerful story which portrays not only the essence of ...
The dreary official chronicles of conventional 20 th-century art history have completely ignored the memory of Augustus Knapp, who reached an audience of millions and captured their hungry ...
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