Meet Japan’s Incredible “Marathon Monk”
On Sunday September 14, 2014 the JCCC is honored to welcome Reverend Ryojun Shionuma, chief priest of Jigenji, the temple of Shugendo – one of the most mysterious denominations of Buddhism.
Ryojun Shionuma is famous throughout Japan as “the Marathon Monk”, being only the second monk in 1,300 years to complete an extreme asceticism called the Omine Thousand-Day Circumambulation Practice.
This incredible feat requires the monk to repeat the following regimen for 1,000 days: to rise each day at midnight and depart Kinpusenji Temple on Mount Yoshino for a twenty-four-kilometre climb into the mountains to the top of Mount Omine, then back again! The vertical climb is more than thirteen hundred meters (about 4,265 feet). The round trip of forty-eight kilometers on the trail takes about sixteen hours. This is repeated 1,000 times!
Ryojun Shionuma will visit the JCCC to talk about this perilous road to enlightenment (the mountains are full of deadly vipers!) and share the knowledge and insights he has gathered on his incredible journey.
Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from this man of incredible spiritual and physical fortitude!
Date: Sunday September 14, 2014
Time: 2:00pm
Admission: $10 including tax
Event will be conducted in Japanese, accompanied by English subtitles and interpretation..
千日回峰行・塩沼亮潤大阿闍梨による講演会
奈良県・大峯山頂上までの往復48キロの山道を1000日間、連日歩き続けるという荒行中の荒行、大峯千日回峰行。そして９日間の断食、断水、不眠、不臥を行う四無行。この二つの破天荒な修行を成し遂げた塩沼亮潤大阿闍梨、そこから得たものはなんだったのでしょうか？
9月14日（日）仙台市にある福聚山慈眼寺の住職である塩沼亮潤大阿闍梨が、千日回峰行の修行経験とそしてその極限下で得た悟りなどをお話くださいます。貴重なお話を聞ける機会です。
日時： 2014年9月14日（日）午後2時
入場料： ＄10 including tax
☆講演は日本語で行われ、英語字幕がつきます。
講演後のQ & Aでは通訳がつきます。
