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

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

by Mark Teeuwen (Editor), Fabio Rambelli (Series Editor), Mark Teeuwen (Editor), Fabio Rambelli (Series Editor)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09 Dec 2015

ISBN 10: 1138965162
ISBN 13: 9781138965164

Author Bio
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.