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Kobo Daishi, founder of Shingon Buddhism, will offer a special prayer.
For Shingon, from an enlightened perspective, the whole phenomenal world itself is also the teaching of Vairocana.
Kūkai (774–835 CE) is a major Japanese Buddhist philosopher and the founder of the Tantric Shingon (true word) school in Japan.
Kūkai's exposition of what has been called Shingon's "metaphysics", is based on the three aspects of the cosmic truth or Hosshin - body, appearance and function.
Shingon shares material with Tibetan Buddhism –-such as the esoteric sutras (called Tantras in Tibetan Buddhism) and mandalas – but the actual practices are not related.
The body is the physical and mental elements, which are the body and mind of the cosmic Buddha and which is also empty ( Shunyata ) The physical universe for Shingon, contains the interconnected mental and physical events.
These forms, sounds and thoughts are expressed by the Shingon practitioner in various rituals and tantric practices which allow them to connect with and inter-resonate with Dainichi and hence reach enlightenment here and now.
This is achieved because of the non-dual relationship between the macrocosm of Hosshin and the microcosm of the Shingon practitioner.
Translated by M. Joseph Costellos, S.J. St Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1992 citation Xavier was welcomed by the Shingon monks since he used the word Dainichi for the Christian God; attempting to adapt the concept to local traditions.