Omine 75 Waves - Omine Shichijugo Nabiki

...As practitioners became more organized, Shugendo was formed, and as their training style became more focused on mountain climbing, lodgings were set up at the training sites scattered throughout the Omine mountain range, and they became interconnected. In this way, training sites linking Kumano and Yoshino were established, and since the early modern period they have been fixed as 75 lodging sites in the Omine mountain range. The training sites are mainly made up of rocks, caves, waterfalls, ponds, etc., and many Buddhas and deities, including Zao Gongen, Acala, Kongo Doji, and Shinpachi Daibosatsu, as well as the founder of the religion are enshrined there. ...

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…修行者たちの集団化がすすみ修験道が形成され，その修行形態も山岳抖擻（とそう）に重点がおかれたものとなるにつれて大峰連峰各所に散在する行場に宿が設けられるなど相互に関連づけられていった。こうして熊野，吉野を結ぶ行場が成立し，近世以降はほぼ大峰七十五靡（なびき）(宿)として固定した。行場はおもに岩場，洞窟，滝，池などによって構成され，蔵王権現，不動明王，金剛童子，神変大菩薩をはじめとする多数の諸仏諸神や高祖開祖がまつられている。…

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