回かい峰ほう行ぎょう

noun

thousand-day mountain circumambulation; kaihōgyō (Tendai ascetic practice)

A severe Tendai Buddhist ascetic practice involving a 1,000-day walking meditation over several years, primarily on Mount Hiei and to the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto.

• 回かい峰ほう行ぎょうを満まん行ぎょうした行ぎょう者じゃは「大だい阿あ闍じゃ梨り」と呼よばれる。

  A practitioner who completes the kaihōgyō is called a 'Dai Ajari' (Great Master).