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.

Buddhism--Relations--Shinto.

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

ix, 371 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

chapter 1 Introduction: combinatory religion and the honji suijaku paradigm in pre-modern Japan / MARK TEEUWEN

chapter 2 From thunder child to Dharma-protector: Døjø høshi and the Buddhist appropriation of Japanese local deities / IRENE H. LIN

chapter 3 The source of oracular speech: absence? presence? or plain treachery? The case of Hachiman Usa-g gotakusensh / ALLAN GRAPARD

chapter 4 Wrathful deities and saving deities / SAT HIROO

chapter 5 The creation of a honji suijaku deity: Amaterasu as the Judge of the Dead / MARK TEEUWEN

chapter 6 Honji suijaku and the logic of combinatory deities: two case studies IYANAGA NOBUMI

chapter 7 Wild words and syncretic deities: ky�gen kigo and honji suijaku in medieval literary allegoresis / SUSAN BLAKELEY KLEIN

chapter 8 “Both parts” or “only one”? Challenges to the honji suijaku paradigm in the Edo period / BERNHARD SCHEID

chapter 9 Hokke Shinto: kami in the Nichiren tradition / LUCIA DOLCE

chapter 10 Honji suijaku at work: religion, economics, and ideology in pre-modern Japan / FABIO RAMBELLI

chapter 11 The interaction between Buddhist and Shinto traditions at Suwa Shrine / INOUE TAKAMI

chapter 12 Dancing the doctrine: honji suijaku thought in kagura performances / IRIT AVERBUCH.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

1-134-43123-6

1-134-43124-4

1-138-96516-2

1-280-07016-1

0-203-22025-0

9780203220252

OCLC:

437079080