8,000 Goma #1

🔥 11th Shō-Hassen-Maiku (Burning Eight Thousand Offerings) Live Stream 🔥

From Byōdōji Temple, the 22nd Sacred Site of the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage

Live streaming the solemn performance of "Shō-Hassen-Maiku," the most rigorous ascetic practice in Shingon Buddhism.

📺 Viewing Page: https://byodoji.online/8k

📄 Detailed Schedule PDF: https://byodoji.online/pdf/8k2025b.pdf

What is Shō-Hassen-Maiku

"Shō-Hassen-Maiku" is a life-risking esoteric ritual known as the "Dharma of Fulfilling All Wishes."

The practitioner undergoes three weeks of purification, strict dietary restrictions, fasting, and water abstinence,

culminating on the final day with over eight hours of chanting Fudō Myōō's mantra while burning eight thousand ritual wooden sticks.

Its merit is said to be "all wishes and desires shall be fulfilled" (Gangu Shikkai Jōju), and

at Byōdōji Temple, it is particularly efficacious for the following prayers:

• Cancer prevention
• Healing from illness
• Health of legs and lower back
• Eye disease recovery
• Finding good relationships
• Success in examinations
• Dispelling misfortune and bringing good luck

Practice Schedule

October 13 - October 27

Daily at 3 AM / 9 AM / 2 PM: "Fudō Goma"

Vegetarian diet, abstaining from five grains (only two morning meals)

October 27 - November 2

Daily at 2 AM / 8 AM / 2 PM: "Fudō Goma" and "Fudō Jikyū-ju 100,000 Recitations"

Vegetarian diet, abstaining from ten grains (only one morning meal)

November 3 (Final Day) 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

From early morning to evening: "Shō-Hassen-Maiku" final session (complete fasting and water abstinence)

📘 Detailed Schedule PDF: https://byodoji.online/pdf/8k2025b.pdf

How to Participate

This dharma assembly can be joined remotely by anyone via

YouTube, Twitch, and Niconico Live.

🎥 24-hour Live Stream (Main Hall & Temple Grounds): https://byodoji.online/live

Those from distant places are welcome to join in prayer from home.

Prayer and Memorial Service Applications

We accept online applications for prayers and memorial services.

• Applications: https://byodoji.online/app/?ritualId=68de7658c7eff900338b6265
• Single Wish Prayer: 500 yen
• Full Session Prayer: 5,000 yen (prayers in all 63 sessions)
• Special plans with blessed items available (sacred wands, wooden plaques, vajra cords, leg health amulets, etc.)

All amulets and blessed items are handmade by the head priest and staff,

and will be blessed and sent to you after the ceremony.

Merits as Described in Sacred Texts

> From the "Kongōshu Kōmyō Kanjō-kyō Saishō Ryūin Shō Fudōson Daii Nuō Nenshō Giki Hōbon" (Ryūin-ki):

> "When goma is performed with eight thousand offerings as the limit, all wishes of the heart shall be fulfilled."

Based on this sutra passage, Shō-Hassen-Maiku has been revered since ancient times

as the "dharma that surely fulfills all sought wishes."

Conclusion

This rigorous ascetic practice, performed only once a year and rarely conducted nationwide,

invites you to entrust your wishes to the flames of this dharma.

Head Priest Taniuchi Shinryō of Byōdōji Temple will

deliver everyone's prayers to the principal images:

Yakushi Nyorai and Fudō Myōō.

🙏 Gasshō

Byōdōji Temple, 22nd Sacred Site of the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage

Head Priest: Taniuchi Shinryō