Example sentences for: shingon

How can you use “shingon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The temple complex quickly became Kyoto’s main center of Shingon Buddhism, which it remains today.

  • Thirty years later Kukai, the revered founder of esoteric Shingon Buddhism, was appointed head abbot.

  • Farther south is Koyasan, the center of the Shingon branch of esoteric Buddhism and one of Japan’s most important religious enclaves.

  • Just a mile from Dogo Spa is the 14th-century Ishiteji temple, one of the 88 stages of the springtime Buddhist pilgrimage around Shikoku defined by Kobo Daishi, founder of Shingon esoteric Buddhism.

  • Koyasan was already known as a sacred site for ascetic practices when Kobo Daishi, a revered Buddhist priest, teacher, and scholar, received imperial permission to establish a religious community to develop his new Shingon sect in 816.


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