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| Nakayama Miki, born into lower class, married off and had children. GOt a reputation for being skillful at nursing people back to health. Went into sponatneous trance at 40. Concluded she was possessed by kami Tenri-o, reveals he is hte creator ckami, speaking through her a s a mouthpiece. Humans need to wipe dust from their soul. Wooden pillar called the Jiba (spot of creation in her house). Shinto lineage. Intended uses is yogikurashi--joyous life. "New New religion" |
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| Beginning in the Tokugawa period, buddhist criticisms based on neo-COnfucian philosophy. Buddhist monks are unfilial, corrrupt, and parasites to society. Not originally japanese. |
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| wished for forced separtion from buddhism, hich was traumatic. Motoori Norinaga searching for nationalistic, atuhentic Japan. SPontantous movement implemented locally, purging of buddhist figures, temples forced to choose, establishment of shinto as originaly religion and buddhist as imported. All during the Meiji period (1868), persecution of buddhism. |
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| (1868-1912) Separation of Shinto and Buddhism a government order. Nationalists persecute buddhists, monks seen as degenerates, forced out of the clergy. Buddhism seen as hoarding precious metals. Attempt to make shinto the state religion. Modern reconfiguration of Buddhism. |
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| Unity of religious ceremonies and government. Come together in restoration of the emperor,seen as descendent of Amaterasu. |
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| Ranking of Shinto Shrines |
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Imperial Shrine--Ise part of imperial household.
Kampeisha--receives offering frm the government.
Kokuheisha--receives offerings from the province
Sonsha--village shrines
minsha--wayside/countryside shrines. |
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| Division of Shrine and Church Shinto |
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| 1882. Government says only certain ones can have Torii gates. try to portray it as an ethos rather than religion. Religious organizations as non profits |
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| Shokunsha. Like Yasukuni, shrine to those who died in the service of the emperor. |
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| Meiji Constitution of 1889 |
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| Restores the power of the emperor? |
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| Imperial Rescript on educatio |
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| Signed by Emperor Meiji, restructuring of the education system. Students required to memorize and recite it. |
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| basis for the emperor's soverignty. pamphlet stating national identity/entity. basis for constitution. |
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| step by steop instructions on how to do zazen. a couple stories and examples, but mostly just telling how to do zazen. |
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| Deals with promoting zen for the protection of the country |
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| Dogen's Lancet of Seated Meditation |
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| Uses lots of quotation marks, seems to be a long story of a monk questioning a teacher. Poses questions from the chinese masters Ta-Chi and Nan-yueh, then answers them. ZEN |
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| Genshin's Nembutsu for Special Occaisions |
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| Deals with reciting the nembutsu on your deathbed in order to be ushered into the Pure Land |
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| Genku's A personal account of the life of the venerable genku |
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| Looks as an account or journal of someone named genku of the events described. Honen as bodhisattva. Pure Land. |
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| Stress on the importance and need for faith to be born into the pure land. |
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| Soka Gakai--a life with values |
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| Soka Gakkai pamphlet. SOunds pretty obviously like a promotional pamphlet. |
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| Provides info on SGI, uses those letters a lot. Loves Nichiren buddhism |
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| Account of a monk who spent some time in the Christian Clergy, he takes carious points of christianity, shows them to be false or convoluted, and shows how buddhism is better. |
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| Tenrikyo Teachings of Divine Truth |
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| Deals with Tenrikyo, again a promotional pamphlet from seemingly the perspective of a believer. Tenri-o-no-mikoto as monotheisitic creator God revealed through Nakayama Miki. |
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| A Child's Guide to Yasakuni Shrine |
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| childs explanation of the use, function of the shrine. simple language. |
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