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Marathon Monk Completes 1000 Day Ritual

Kyoto Shimbun 2003.9.18 News

Photo = Genshin Fujinami of Hoshu-in Temple performing rituals for worshipers at the completion of the 1,000-day running ritual (At Mudo-ji Myo-o-do Temple in Otsu City, Shiga, on Sep. 18)

Marathon Monk completes "1,000-day running ritual" around mountains in Hiei Genshin Fujinami of Hoshu-in Temple became the twelfth priest to complete the pilgrimage after the World War II Genshin Fujinami, the priest of Enryaku-ji Hoshu-in Temple in Otsu City, Shiga, completed his marathon pilgrimage called "Sennichi-Kaiho-Gyo" which has been passed down from Hieizan Enryaku-ji temple, the head temple of the Tendai sect of Buddhism. "Sennichi-kaiho-gyo" is said to have been started by So-o-kasho in the Heian Period (794-1192). Some Tendai sect priests have challenged the hardship, but only a few have been successful. A trainee priest must walk around the mountains of Hiei for 1,000 consecutive days to feel the spirit of Buddha in every tree or even in the blades of grass. The total distance of the pilgrimage amounts to more than 40,000 kilometers. The religious austerity also includes ordeals such as "Do-iri", entering a temple and chanting sutras for nine days without food, water, sleep or even lying down, and "Kyoto-o-mawari", an 84-kilometer-per-day walk in Kyoto. When Fujinami finished his first 100-day pilgrimage in 1984, he temporarily interrupted his pilgrimage to perform "Rozan-gyo", another discipline in which one retreats into the mountains for twelve years to gain spiritual enlightenment. After completing this discipline, he resumed his pilgrimage in 1998. The 44-year-old priest is the twelfth after the World War II to achieve this great feat and the first in nine years since Gyosho Uehara (48) of Zenju-in Temple in 1994. The honorific title "Dai-ajari" (Great Master) will be conferred on Fujinami. At one in the morning on September 18, Fujinami left Myo-o-do Temple in Mudojidani in a special white robe and a lotus-leaf-shaped cap. After trekking up and down 30 kilometers of wild mountain trails and offering prayers to small shrines and stone Buddhist images along the course, he safely returned to Myo-o-do Temple at around seven in the morning. Fujinami, with light, steady steps, politely bowed to Uehara and the worshipers who welcomed him at the temple. He said: "I started it all by myself, but many people have gathered to encourage and support me. I am really grateful for this. I would like to continue both improving myself and serving sincerely as a priest of Enryaku-ji Temple.”

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Marathon Monk Completes 1000 Day Ritual

Kyoto Shimbun 2003.9.18 News

Photo = Genshin Fujinami of Hoshu-in Temple performing rituals for worshipers at the completion of the 1,000-day running ritual (At Mudo-ji Myo-o-do Temple in Otsu City, Shiga, on Sep. 18)

Marathon Monk completes "1,000-day running ritual" around mountains in Hiei Genshin Fujinami of Hoshu-in Temple became the twelfth priest to complete the pilgrimage after the World War II Genshin Fujinami, the priest of Enryaku-ji Hoshu-in Temple in Otsu City, Shiga, completed his marathon pilgrimage called "Sennichi-Kaiho-Gyo" which has been passed down from Hieizan Enryaku-ji temple, the head temple of the Tendai sect of Buddhism. "Sennichi-kaiho-gyo" is said to have been started by So-o-kasho in the Heian Period (794-1192). Some Tendai sect priests have challenged the hardship, but only a few have been successful. A trainee priest must walk around the mountains of Hiei for 1,000 consecutive days to feel the spirit of Buddha in every tree or even in the blades of grass. The total distance of the pilgrimage amounts to more than 40,000 kilometers. The religious austerity also includes ordeals such as "Do-iri", entering a temple and chanting sutras for nine days without food, water, sleep or even lying down, and "Kyoto-o-mawari", an 84-kilometer-per-day walk in Kyoto. When Fujinami finished his first 100-day pilgrimage in 1984, he temporarily interrupted his pilgrimage to perform "Rozan-gyo", another discipline in which one retreats into the mountains for twelve years to gain spiritual enlightenment. After completing this discipline, he resumed his pilgrimage in 1998. The 44-year-old priest is the twelfth after the World War II to achieve this great feat and the first in nine years since Gyosho Uehara (48) of Zenju-in Temple in 1994. The honorific title "Dai-ajari" (Great Master) will be conferred on Fujinami. At one in the morning on September 18, Fujinami left Myo-o-do Temple in Mudojidani in a special white robe and a lotus-leaf-shaped cap. After trekking up and down 30 kilometers of wild mountain trails and offering prayers to small shrines and stone Buddhist images along the course, he safely returned to Myo-o-do Temple at around seven in the morning. Fujinami, with light, steady steps, politely bowed to Uehara and the worshipers who welcomed him at the temple. He said: "I started it all by myself, but many people have gathered to encourage and support me. I am really grateful for this. I would like to continue both improving myself and serving sincerely as a priest of Enryaku-ji Temple.”

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SCHEDULE OF A JAPANESE “MARATHON MONK” YEAR 1 -- In the middle of the night, the monk straps primitive straw-made sandals around his bare feet with rope. The monk will go through four of five pairs of these shoes a day. He wears white robes and ties a matt to the top of his head, wrapping the other side of the string around the fleshy part of his neck. The ritual is part of a seven year rite of passage. If he completes the pilgrimage, he will be considered a living saint. If he cannot, he carries two tools which he is obligated to use on himself: a long knife, a rope. In Buddhism, white is the color of death. YEAR 7 -- The monk walks briskly on a dark, rocky trail up and down steep climbs, muddy falls. During this pilgrimage, he will travel 84 km each day for the next one hundred days, sleeping only 2 hours a night and walking for 17. For comparison: an Olympic marathon is 42 km. Those marathon runners that have tried training with the monks have not been able to keep up for more than a few days. YEAR 5 -- The monk is accompanied by others at various stages in their development, holding the monk at his side so that he does not tip over, so that his head does not lean to his shoulder. For the next nine days, at 2am each night, the only time the monk is allowed to stand, he fetches sacrificial water from a spiritual well 200km away. A village of monks surround him with droning chants and orange lanterns as he slogs towards it. On Day 1, the walk took minutes. On Day 9, it is taking an anguishing hour. He has lost the ability to think. He has lost all desire for hunger, for water. He has lost everything. He keeps his head aligned forward, rhythmically plunging a walking stick to the earth in front of him like the tide going out, then in. What he has gained: he can hear the wax fall from every candle stick. He can smell the dinner being prepared miles away at the bottom of the mountain. He peers into the well, and in the water, he sees no reflection.