Reiki's Western Transmission

Usui's 1927 memorial stone dates his Tokyo society to April 1922; Hawayo Takata was advertising 'Reiki Sanitarium Treatments' in Hawaii by October 1936.

Usui memorial stone, Saihō-ji, Tokyo, February 1927, translated in Jojan Jonker, Reiki: The Transmigration of a Japanese Spiritual Healing Practice (LIT, 2016), p. 603; Takata's Garden Island advertisement, October 1936, ibid. p. 361

A Japanese energy-healing system, commonly presented in the West as an ancient Tibetan practice.

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Jojan Jonker, Reiki: The Transmigration of a Japanese Spiritual Healing Practice (Nijmegen Buddhist and Asian Studies 3, LIT Verlag), 2016, pp. 259, 305, 361, 378, 439, 603Usui's memorial stone of February 1927 dating his Tokyo Gakkai to April 1922; Takata's return to Hawaii in July 1936 and first advertisement in October 1936; her twenty-two masters; the five precepts; a US report calling Reiki 'An ancient Tibetan tradition'.
Reiki Sanitarium Treatments