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What does Shingon mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A major school of esoteric Buddhism in Japan.
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In one community, where there were two priests, one Tendai and the other Shingon, neither seemed to count for much.
Kakukan was a clerical official at Ninnaji, a Shingon temple in northern Kyoto, which was historically headed by cloistered imperial princes.
Shinnyo-en began in 1936 as a community rooted in Shingon Buddhism, a lineage started in Japan more than 1,100 years ago.
The Shingon sect in Japan depict benevolent deities in a raging form, Funnu.
The exhibition is being presented in honour of the Academy's 75th anniversary and the centennial of the Hawaii Shingon Mission.
A friend has furnished me with some very curious and unfamiliar Shingon texts containing answers to the enigma.

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