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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Teeuwen, Mark.

Rambelli, Fabio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shinto--Relations--Buddhism.

Shinto.

Relations.

Buddhism.

Buddhism--Relations--Shinto.

Physical Description:

ix, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

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'). 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353) and index.

ISBN:

0415297478

OCLC:

50184865