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Wikipedia's article on Shugendo, the Japanese mountain ascetic tradition, giving En no Gyoja as its traditional patriarch, its central sacred mountains (Omine, Kinpusen, Kumano Sanzan, Dewa Sanzan), the yamabushi and shugenja practitioner terms, its institutional lineages through the Shingon and Tendai Buddhist schools (Shogoin, Kinpusen-ji, Sanbo-in), the Meiji government's 1872 ban on the tradition and its postwar revival, and the mountain training practice (nyubu shugyo) that remains central today, a continuously revised, community edited tertiary encyclopedia entry with no named author, hence the lower tier, though useful for these documented names, sites and dates.

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3
Reliability tier 3: a community edited encyclopedia article, useful for uncontroversial documented facts, here the tradition's founder figure, major sites and institutional names, and the 1872 to postwar suppression and revival timeline, cross checked against the dedicated Wikipedia articles on En no Gyoja, Dewa Sanzan, Kinpusenji and Ominesanji cited alongside it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shugend%C5%8D
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Claims Backed By This Source (51 claims)

This source backs 51 claims across the atlas. As facts: 38 well-attested. As cited relationships: 9 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Denominations, 26 claims: 21 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
  • Religious Roles & Titles, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
  • Articles, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
  • Open Questions, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
  • Sacred Sites, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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