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KOBO DAISHI (774-835):
the posthumous name of Kukai a Japanese BUDDHIST SAINT and founder of the SHINGON sect of Buddhism. After studying in China, he introduced TANTRIC PRACTICE and pantheistic mystical ideas into Japanese BUDDHISM. His teachings involved a syncratic mysticism which influenced the development of SHINT.
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