30.2: Shingon or Japanese Esoteric Buddhism

Occult Confessions by Robert C. Thompson

May 1, 202600:55:30Comedy

The goal of estoteric Buddhism is to achieve a sudden spiritual awakening through the use of secret rituals which might include mantras, gestures, or the visualization of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and other deities, in the...

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