yamabushi
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are Japanese mountain ascetic hermits. They are generally part of the syncretic religion, which includes Tantric Buddhism and Shinto.
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are Japanese mountain ascetic hermits. They are generally part of the syncretic religion, which includes Tantric Buddhism and Shinto.
Their origins can be traced back to the solitary yamabito (wild hill people) and some (wandering Buddhist renunciants) of the eighth and ninth centuries.
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