Toshigoi / Kinen-sai

Entry

#0053

Tradition(s)

Buddhism · Daoism · Shinto

Status

needs-review

Completeness

E

Restriction

HAZARDOUS-HISTORICAL

Aliases / layers

Buddhist Mo Divination; Cave Retreat

Source files

• 01_Buddhism.md
• 02_Daoism.md
• 03_Shinto.md

Hazardous historical practice

This entry includes historically attested hazardous or high-risk techniques. The text records what sources describe; it is not an instruction set for contemporary practice.

This encyclopaedia records historical evidence. It does not convert dangerous historical procedures into optimized contemporary instructions.

Overview

This canonical ID (53) currently groups 3 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

• Buddhist Mo Divination
• Cave Retreat

Research layers

Source-layer provenance

This page preserves 3 research layers from the v3.3 corpus. Layers are listed in deterministic source-file order.

Title conflict: layers under this entry number use different titles (often because tradition volumes restart numbering). Do not treat them as one practice until a scholarly merge is reviewed.

Layer 1: Buddhist Mo Divination

Source file: 01_Buddhism.md

Tibetan mo systems employ dice, beads or textual algorithms tied to deities such as Mañjuśrī or Tara. A question is formally framed, mantra may be recited, lots/dice cast, and a result interpreted from a manual.

Reliability: B.

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Layer 2: Cave Retreat

Source file: 02_Daoism.md

Historically associated with revelation, alchemy, meditation and mountain asceticism.

Hazard: caves can be physically dangerous; ancient ascetic geography is not a substitute for modern safety planning.
Reliability: B.

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Layer 3: Toshigoi / Kinen-sai

Source file: 03_Shinto.md

Prayer for the year’s agricultural fertility, historically a major state/shrine rite.

Reliability: A/B.

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