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

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Fabio Rambelli (Contributor) Mark Teeuwen (Contributor)  

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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.
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.
  • Contributor: Fabio Rambelli
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9780415297479
  • Number of Pages: 384
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 793
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2002-11-28
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: 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.

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