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Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm

By Mark Teeuwen

Book information

Publisher
Routledge Curzon
Year
2003
ISBN
9780415297479, 0415297478, 9780203220252, 9780203296011, 0203220250
Open Library ID
OL21999538M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2973226 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
371\382
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions between Shinto and Japanese Buddhism, and presents a more dynamic and variegated religious world, one in which the deities' Buddhist originals and local traces did not constitute one-to-one associations, but complex combinations of multiple deities based on semiotic operations, doctrines, myths, and legends. The book's essays, all based on specific case studies, discuss the honji suijaku paradigm from a number of different perspectives, always integrating historical and doctrinal analysis with interpretive insights.

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