Tenjin / Sugawara no Michizane Pacification
Overview
Section titled “Overview”This canonical ID (57) 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
Section titled “Also attested under these titles”- Mani Wheels
- Three Officials
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Mani Wheels
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01_Buddhism.md
Rotating cylinders containing mantra texts, especially oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ, are treated as physicalized recitation technologies.
Reliability: B.
Additional Buddhist Entry Register
Section titled “Additional Buddhist Entry Register”The following deserve individual expansion in future editions and are included here to keep the scope visible:
Early / Theravāda: ten recollections; cemetery dwelling; forest-dweller observance; alms-round observance; one-bowl eating; one-session eating; robes-from-rags; walking meditation; Uposatha; rains retreat; Kathina; relic installation; Buddha-footprint veneration; pilgrimage; merit transfer; protective yantras in Southeast Asia; sak yant and monastic tattoo traditions; spirit houses in Buddhist folk religion; astrology; auspicious-thread rites; Pirit Mandapa; Bodhi-tree worship.
Mahāyāna / East Asia: Lotus Samādhi; Samantabhadra repentance; Great Compassion Dhāraṇī; Cundī practice; Uṣṇīṣa Sitātapatrā; Medicine Buddha rites; Akṣobhya rites; Kṣitigarbha rites; liberation of animals; burning offerings; paper memorial tablets; memorial name rites; Chinese esoteric altar methods; repentance assemblies; Tiantai four samādhis; Huayan ocean-seal contemplation; Chan/Zen kōan introspection; “silent illumination”; kinhin; takuhatsu; sesshin; dharma combat; death poems; mizuko kuyō; Japanese memorial tablets and kaimyō.
Vajrayāna: Vajrasattva 100-syllable purification; mandala self-generation; front-generation; vase consecration; inner offering; nectar pills; treasure vases; thread-cross (mdos) rites; ransom rites (glud); life-release rites; long-life vase rites; Black Hat dances; cham; sand mandala construction/dissolution; chod variants; chod cemetery practice; wrathful torma; Namkha thread constructions; mirror divination; astrological calculation; lung-ta rites; naga offering; lu-tor; protector renewal; Mahākāla gtor-zlog; Tara rites; Vajrakīlaya drupchen; drupchen group retreat; mantra retreat; fire-puja after retreat; dark retreat; Dzogchen trekchö and tögal; Mahāmudrā; six-session guru yoga; “taking and giving” tonglen; sky-burial liturgical context; relic-pill (ringsel) beliefs.
Expanded Buddhist Ritual Magic and Mikkyō — Version 1.3
Section titled “Expanded Buddhist Ritual Magic and Mikkyō — Version 1.3”Layer 2: Three Officials
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02_Daoism.md
Chinese: 三官
Heaven, Earth and Water officials became major divine bureaucrats associated with blessing, absolution and deliverance. Petitions and festival days address their respective jurisdictions.
Reliability: B.
Layer 3: Tenjin / Sugawara no Michizane Pacification
Section titled “Layer 3: Tenjin / Sugawara no Michizane Pacification”Source file:
03_Shinto.md
A classic historical pattern: feared posthumous wrath followed by cultic elevation into Tenjin, now strongly associated with learning.
Reliability: A/B.