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As discipline for the attainment of excellence along the path marked out in the "Mantra sect," there are three mystic rites: worshipping the Buddha with the hand in certain positions called signs; repeating Dharani, or mystic formulas; contemplation.
Soon taking upon himself the vows of the monk, he was first named Kukai, meaning "space and sea," or heaven and earth. He overcame the dragons that assaulted him, by prayers, by spitting at them the rays of the evening star which had flown from heaven into his mouth and by repeating the mystic formulas called Dharani.
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