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MT. Hl£l, Japan • Thr一uflflout 飾y的r, except f6rthi9 snoyvbound神fer， one of J争 p^tsmosti"ev針e0 6uddhlst monks rises at 2 a.m., dons a "death robe" and slips his feer into straw sandals to start jiis run along a 25«mile mountain traに
Yusal Sakal， 58, the "ajarに or "grand master" has re. peated the to ugh eight-hour run around Mt. Hiei, north of Kyoto,1500 times. A long the way, the short, stocky, rosy-cheeked man stops to recはe short sutras, or Buddhlsf prayers, at 260 temples, shrines, river forks and bridges-Other holy men have completed the near - marathon lenghth rugged course1000 times, but no other priest in recorded history has matched Sakaにs achievement, accomplished over12 years.
Sakai carries a monk's dagger, a sacred rope and sealed wallet during the run, because by tracMtion and precept the rite forbids any monk to return before covering the entire distance'or to ask for assistance along the way. Sakai wears the "death robe" becauseけhe Is disabled along the way, he must take his own lけe by hanging or stabbing himseけafter which the money in the wallet will be used by passers-by to .arrange asimple funeral.
By10 a.m. he is back atりis small isolated monastery for sutra-reading and monastery chores. Sakai is allowed only undergoing the or deal-Since World War II， only nine monks have completed the1000.run rite, which nor-
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mallメ lastさfor1000 day争over se veh yearnsi. Duflngtheseyen years, th6morMareanowが to speakonly wlthw"h their masters. They are asked to refrain仟om readIng news-plapefs orbooks and most not descend Mt, Hiel，
Dufing that time, monks hは the trail,叩slopes，dowri valleys and across rivulets, for a continuous100 or 200 day a year period. Heavy snow on the 2800.foot mountain bars winter runs.
The eight other monks survived the ordealIn their late 20s or early 30s. Sakai completed the "rst cycle of1000 runs when he was 54.
During the past12 years ' Sakai has survived another rけe required in his path to becoming an ajarにHe spent nine days continuously chanting the Lotus Sutra in -the compounds of a small temple "vvけhout food, without water, wけhout sleep and without laying down to rest," he said In an interview.
Doctors say mere survival of the nine-day rite is a medical impossibiMty for average humans. Ever since he came out of the ''Do-lri'，， Sakai has been considered a Living Buddha by followers of Japan's1200-year-old Tendai Sect.
Cynics have described modem Japanese Buddhism as a "funeral religion" because temples make much of their incomes from ceremonies for the dead.
However, Sakai has be-corTJe well known among both Buddhists and non-Buddhists in Japan as a rare, spiritual example because of his abili. ty to overcome personal tragedy and his astonishing records as an ascetic.
Sakai was born in1925 to a poor family of12 in the dty of Osaka. As a child, he moved to Tokyo wけh  his family
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"I haぉd studying. I was wりat you巾lght now call a dropouV' he said. "So they told me Icouldn't graduate from Keio High Schoor's night division because of my frec)uent absences and poor grades. They told me the on，y way (to graduate) was to volunteer for the army, which Ireallydid."
During World Wa(" H， he served as a member of the Inrv perial Army's reserve officer training corps.
After the war, he unsuccessfully tried his hand at various jobs including school librarian, noodle shop owner, stock broker, and pastry shop
his Hfe occurred when his wife of three months committed suicide suddenly.
Sakai polけely refuses to speak of those days, but supporters who havさknown him since then said his aunt tried to salvage his shattered lけe by taking Sakai， then 35， to the vast1200-year-old temple complex at Mt. Hieに
Four years later, after frequent visけs to the holy mountain, he entered Tendai as a 39-year .old novice among fellow teenage beginners.
"Ajari，' is the Japanese pronunciation of the Sanskrit word "acharya，" meaning master or teacher. The running rite is one path - others include scholarship - to this exulted tけle. Only 60 have managed to come out of the running practice alive since the16th century. There are no records of those who died trying.
Wiih restrictions on outside contacts eased during the winter season when he does not run, Sakai spoke on the nine.day rite and the mountain run, saying survival of the rigorous program was *'allup to FudoSama."
Fudo-My0.0 is the formal Japanese name for the Indian one of many reincarnations of Godhead A c ha la the Immobile, Siva. In the Buddhist pantheon, Fudo is an armed protector of Buddha's teachings and a guardian for nrronks
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'リf Fudo-Sama considers my present life finished, then he will take me. If he thinks I still have a job left in my present lけe， then he will tell me to live," he said.
Sakai will run around the mourUain for the1501time in late March. "I was an utter failure down below (in my normal lけe), but now I have found what I was born to do. Nobody is bom a 'dropout',,' he said.
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