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For the first time in English, here is the Shugen Seiten. This book contains almost every Shugendo ritual outline as recorded in 1927. It also contains some of the core scriptures.
I basically went through and machine translated each page, screenshot by screenshot. So please understand that it is not the prettiest translation, and sometimes errors occur. This book is not a beginners book at all. Some of the translation uses funny words that, for someone fairly well read in Shingon - should be able to piece together. This book definitely confirms a lot of esoteric Buddhist concepts and is also highly syncretic with Taoism and Shinto. It contains many spells and mantras, talismans and rituals. Many variants of goma fire rituals, deity yoga, and much more - with altar diagrams included.
Keep in mind this is the first version, and will probably take more than a year to edit this together more neatly. So instead of making everyone wait, I decided maybe some dedicated students could also study the text and extract what they can from it. For this reason I provide both my English version and the original Japanese manuscript. Enjoy!
English Version:
Japanese Version:
I basically went through and machine translated each page, screenshot by screenshot. So please understand that it is not the prettiest translation, and sometimes errors occur. This book is not a beginners book at all. Some of the translation uses funny words that, for someone fairly well read in Shingon - should be able to piece together. This book definitely confirms a lot of esoteric Buddhist concepts and is also highly syncretic with Taoism and Shinto. It contains many spells and mantras, talismans and rituals. Many variants of goma fire rituals, deity yoga, and much more - with altar diagrams included.
Keep in mind this is the first version, and will probably take more than a year to edit this together more neatly. So instead of making everyone wait, I decided maybe some dedicated students could also study the text and extract what they can from it. For this reason I provide both my English version and the original Japanese manuscript. Enjoy!
English Version:
Japanese Version:
