Waidan Secrecy

Overview

This canonical ID (36) currently groups 5 source layers with divergent titles. Milestone-1 migration preserves every layer below without inventing a single merged narrative. Status: needs-review.

Also attested under these titles

Sanmitsu — Three Mysteries
Lingbao Universal-Salvation Ritual
Kayu-ura — Rice-Gruel Divination
Gozu Tennō and Gion Cult

Research layers

Layer 1: Sanmitsu — Three Mysteries

Source file: 01_Buddhism.md

Japanese: 三密
Shingon’s integrated practice of:

body: mudrā
speech: mantra
mind: visualization/contemplation

The practitioner aligns the “three mysteries” of the practitioner with those of Mahāvairocana.

Reliability: A/B.

Layer 2: Lingbao Universal-Salvation Ritual

Source file: 02_Daoism.md

Lingbao traditions (late 4th–5th centuries onward) integrated Daoist and Buddhist-inspired universal salvation.

Liturgical features

Purification; altar construction; visualization; petitions; scriptures; registers; offerings; rites for living and dead; celestial journeys by the officiant.

Reliability: A/B.

Layer 3: Kayu-ura — Rice-Gruel Divination

Source file: 03_Shinto.md

Ritual rice/bean gruel is cooked and the resulting condition, moulding or grain pattern interpreted to predict harvest and communal fortune.

Reliability: A/B.

Layer 4: Gozu Tennō and Gion Cult

Source file: 04_Syncretic_Japan.md

A powerful syncretic plague-deity complex blending Indian/Buddhist, Chinese and Japanese elements. Pacification festivals contributed to the history of Kyoto’s Gion Matsuri.

Reliability: B.

Layer 5: Waidan Secrecy

Source file: 13_FORBIDDEN_TABOO_RESTRICTED_INDEX_v2_1.md

Class: INITIATORY-SECRECY
External alchemical texts and recipes could be transmitted master-to-disciple under vows of secrecy.

Restricted elements

formula;
timing;
furnace construction;
divine names;
talismanic protection;
ingredient preparation.