Buddhas and Kami in Japan

Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm
Herausgeber: Rambelli, Fabio; Teeuwen, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781138965164
• ISBN-10: 1138965162
• Artikelnr.: 44364929

Autorenporträt

Mark Teeuwen teaches at the University of Oslo, Norway. He specialises in the history of Shinto. Fabio Ramballi teaches at Sapporo University, Japan. He specialises in the history of Buddhism, particularly Esoteric Buddhism in Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Preface 1. Introduction: Combinatory religion and the honji
suijaku paradigm in pre-modern Japan Mark Teeuwen and Fabio Rambelli
2. From thunder child to Dharma protector: Dojo hoshi and the Buddhist
appropriation of Japanese local deities Irene Lin 3. The source of oracular
speech: absense? presence? or plain treachery? The case of Hachiman Usa-gú
gotakusenshú Allan Grapard 4. Wrathful Deities and saving deities Sato
Hiroo 5. The creation of a honji suijaku deity: Amaterasu as the Judge of
the Dead Mark Teeuwen 6. Honji suijaku and the logic of combinatory images:
Two case studies Iyanaga Nobumi 7. Honji suijaku and the development of
etymological allegoresis as an interpretive method in medieval commentaries
Susan Blakeley/Klein 8. 'Both parts' or 'only one'? Challenges to the honji
suijaku paradigm in the Edo period Bernhard Scheid 9. Hokke Shinto: Kami in
the Nichiren tradition Lucia Dolce 10. Honji suijaku at work: Religion,
economics, and ideology in pre-modern Japan Fabio Rambelli 11. The
interaction between Buddhist and Shinto traditions at Suwa Shrine Inoue
Takami 12. Dancing the doctrine: Honji suijaku thought in kagura
performances Irit Averbuch Notes Bibliography Index