Okunoin Cemetery , Japan

Okunoin is the largest cemetery in Japan, comprising some 200'000 graves. Mt. Kōya is primarily known as the world headquarters of the Kōyasan Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism. Shingon Buddhism (真言宗 Shingon-shū?) is one of the mainstream major schools of Japanese Buddhism and one of the few surviving Esoteric Buddhist lineages that started in the 3rd to 4th century CE that originally spread from India to China through traveling monks. Today, there are very few books on Shingon in the West and until the 1