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

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

Rambelli, Fabio
Teeuwen, Mark

Hardcover

General Eastern ReligionsJapanese HistoryShintoism

ISBN10: 0415297478
ISBN13: 9780415297479
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2002
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.84 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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