Shingon

American  

[shin-gon, sheen-] / ˈʃɪn gɒn, ˈʃin- /

noun

Buddhism.

1. a Japanese form of syncretistic Buddhism founded in the 9th century by Kūkai (a.d. 774–835) and stressing the oral transmission of mystic formulas from master to disciple.

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Etymology

Origin of Shingon

1895–1900; < Japanese < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese zhēnyán truth(-speaking)

Example Sentences

Daniel Kimura, 30, an official Shingon priest who was born in the United States but has lived in Japan for about 15 years, owned up to the negative replies.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2018

But the mirror of metal commonly placed before the public gaze in a Shinto shrine is not really of Shinto origin, but was introduced into Japan as a Buddhist symbol of the Shingon sect.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

For this distress neither the Tendai doctrines nor the Shingon conceptions were sufficiently simple to supply a remedy.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

It has already been stated that the priests of Kii had their headquarters at Negoro, where there stood the great monastery of Dai-Dembo-In, belonging to the Shingon sect and enjoying almost the repute of Koya-san.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

The principal of the sects now existing in Japan are the Tendai, Shingon Yoko and Ken, all of which, I may observe, are of Chinese origin.

From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)