Deity 36 Dōji
Eight Great Youths
八大童子 ja
Attendants of Fudo Myo-o in Japanese Buddhism
- Also called Eight Great Children, Eight Great Child Attendants, Eight Great Child Acolytes
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Connections
How Eight Great Youths connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 3
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
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