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Title Buddhas and kami in Japan : honji suijaku as a combinatory paradigm / edited by Mark Teeuwen and Fabio Rambelli.

Publication Info. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : illustrations
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353) and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: combinatory religion and the honji suijaku paradigm in pre-modern Japan; From thunder child to Dharma-protector: Dj hshi and the Buddhist appropriation of Japanese local deities; The source of oracular speech: absence? presence? or plain treachery? The case of Hachiman Usa-g gotakusensh; Wrathful deities and saving deities; The creation of a honji suijaku deity: Amaterasu as the Judge of the Dead; Honji suijaku and the logic of combinatory deities: two case studies.
Wild words and syncretic deities: kygen kigo and honji suijaku in medieval literary allegoresis~Both parts~ or ~only one~? Challenges to the honji suijaku paradigm in the Edo period; Hokke Shinto: kami in the Nichiren tradition; Honji suijaku at work: religion, economics, and ideology in pre-modern Japan; The interaction between Buddhist and Shinto traditions at Suwa Shrine; Dancing the doctrine: honji suijaku thought in kagura performances; Bibliography; In.
Summary This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces).
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Shinto -- Relations -- Buddhism.
Shinto.
Relations.
Buddhism.
Buddhism -- Relations -- Shinto.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Teeuwen, Mark.
Rambelli, Fabio.
Other Form: Print version: Buddhas and kami in Japan. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 0415297478 (DLC) 2002026936 (OCoLC)50184865
ISBN 0203220250 (electronic book)
9780203220252 (electronic book)
9780415297479
0415297478
9786610070169
6610070164
0415297478 (Cloth)
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9781138965164
1280070161
9781280070167
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