Kōyū Amano
Kōyū Amano (天野 高雄, 1968 - present) is a Japanese Buddhist monk of Kōyasan Shingon-shū. He currently serves as abbot at Kōzō-ji (高蔵寺) in Okayama Prefecture and has been active as a missionary, artist, sculptor and radio personality. Life Amano was born in Kurashiki city as the eldest son of ex-photographer Masao Amano. In his youth, he studied oil painting and shodō and developed hobbies such as playing trumpet and softball. He traveled to Tokyo with the purpose of becoming a comedian, but was turned away from the opportunity. At the recommendation of his grandfather Yūen Amano, then 15th abbot, he enrolled in Koyasan High School and later entered Koyasan University where he graduated from the Department of Esoteric Buddhism (密教学科). Immediately after his grandfather's passing, Amano took over as 16th abbot of the temple. Today, Amano proselytizes Buddhism through his art and local radio show. Family Amano has one younger brother, Yukio Amano w ...
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Kōyasan Shingon-shū
is a Japanese sect of Shingon Buddhism. Headquartered on Mount Kōya in Wakayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Wakayama Prefecture has a population of 876,030 () and a geographic area of . Wakayama Prefecture borders Osaka Prefecture to the north, and Mie Prefecture and Nara Prefecture to ..., it is also the oldest and largest of the eighteen Shingon sects in Japan. The main temple is Kongōbu-ji. , there are nearly 4,000 affiliated Kōyasan Shingon-shū temples in and beyond Japan. There are missions in North America and Hawai'i specifically that function as non-profit arms of the section. References Bibliography * Schools of Shingon Buddhism Kōyasan {{Buddhism-stub ...
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