CENTRIPETAL ART / MATRIX OF GROWTH         Home More about the Book Community Join Discussion Forum News Gift Shop Gallery Perilous Journey     Category Animations   SKU Anim02   Price $US 5.00 Ea   Description The second animation in the KUUKAI series: 3.5 minutes long, downloadable to your iPOD. Kuukai comes down from Mt. Kooya and his destiny calls him to journey to China. The journey to China is very dangerous: at that time, Japanese boats were not designed for stormy seas: they still had flat hulls! Most of the young men who journeyed to China died in shipwrecks. Kuukai's boat was shipwrecked but he made it to Chang'An - the biggest city in the world at that time, at the eastern end of the Silk Road. There he studied Esoteric Buddhism and returned to Japan carrying copies of all the most important Buddhist sutras - a boat full of scrolls! Back in Japan, he started to spread his own teaching: Shingonshu. The central message was: We can erase our karma in this one lifetime. We don't have to be born and reborn hundreds of times to reach enlightenment. This message blew the minds of all who heard it, and Shingonshu is still the most popular Buddhist sect in Japan today!       Site Map Terms of Use Privacy Policy Contact Us Other Links   © 2022 Giotto Multimedia. gBOOK and CentripetalArt are trademarks of Giotto Multimedia.