Welcome to Shichisei 七星!

This website is majoritarily my amateur research on Buddhism, especially of the Heian era (Tendai and Shingon schools), but may also include elements of the personal, and the vaguely esoteric and philosophical.

I am not a researcher, a scholar, or a teacher. Please don't be a fool and take me for an authority. May you still have fun engaging with my thoughts.

THIS IS A BLOG AND NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION

This site is run by layman Shingō 真強

(09/05/2026) Iyaaaahhh!!! Life is very busy!!! I prioritize articles so while there is something new, the errors have not been amended yet in the old ones and the revamp still isn't here. It's coming!!! It's coming!!!!! At the very least, now the website is Anubis protected which should take care of the ai issue.

(11/03/2026) Hello! As my interests got broader in many many aspects, including the Buddhist, the esoteric and the technological, a revamp is coming in a near (and vague...) future. All old content will stay (with errors hopefully amended...), and the website will stay lightweight. What I'm planning is most likely a PHP rewrite, and of course, more content by yours truly. Also, I need to find a non-intrusive way to not get my stuff fed to the ai slop overlords, sigh!

Articles

My "world" and the "magical theory" of 0

What is Tendai Buddhism?

3000 Realms in a Single Though-Moment

Sutra Repository

Other

Sutra Transcriptions

Contact

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