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Tenjin / Sugawara no Michizane Pacification

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.

  • Mani Wheels
  • Three Officials

Source file: 01_Buddhism.md

Rotating cylinders containing mantra texts, especially oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ, are treated as physicalized recitation technologies.

Reliability: B.


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”

Source file: 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.