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  • En no Gyōja
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  • was the former leader of the Tsuchigumo clan and the grandfather of Hotaru.
  • En no Gyōja (役行者), or En no Ozunu (役小角), born 634, was a Japanese ascetic and mystic, traditionally held to be the founder of Shugendō, a syncretic religion incorporating aspects of Taoism, Shinto, esoteric Buddhism (especially Shingon Mikkyō and the Tendai sect) and traditional Japanese shamanism. He is venerated as a bosatsu (a bodhisattva) Jinben Daibosatsu (神変大菩薩). Authorship of the non-canonical Sutra on the Unlimited Life of the Threefold Body is attributed to En no Gyōja. Due to his mythical status as a mountain saint, he was believed to possess many supernatural powers.
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  • January 2009
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  • March 2009
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  • Japan
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  • was the former leader of the Tsuchigumo clan and the grandfather of Hotaru.
  • En no Gyōja (役行者), or En no Ozunu (役小角), born 634, was a Japanese ascetic and mystic, traditionally held to be the founder of Shugendō, a syncretic religion incorporating aspects of Taoism, Shinto, esoteric Buddhism (especially Shingon Mikkyō and the Tendai sect) and traditional Japanese shamanism. He is venerated as a bosatsu (a bodhisattva) Jinben Daibosatsu (神変大菩薩). Authorship of the non-canonical Sutra on the Unlimited Life of the Threefold Body is attributed to En no Gyōja. Due to his mythical status as a mountain saint, he was believed to possess many supernatural powers.