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• Emperor Go-Reizei
  *Rise in popularity of [[Pure Land Buddhism]]
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• Kuya
  *“Amida, The Pure Land, and the Response of the Old Buddhism to the New.” in Wm. Theodore De Bary, Donald Keene, George Tanabe, and Pa
  2 KB (300 words) - 10:32, 13 March 2014
• Zenrin-ji
  ...n [[Kyoto]]'s Higashiyama district, the head of the Seizan [[Jodo shu|Pure Land]] Zenrin-ji sect. ...n-ji. Shôkû then converted Zenrin-ji from Shingon Buddhism to Hônen's Pure Land sect (''Jôdo-shû''), and established it as the head of a new Zenrin-ji se
  4 KB (560 words) - 15:49, 29 August 2013
• Taichu
  ...i province]], who was the first to bring [[Jodo shu|Jôdo shû]] (Pure Land) Buddhism to [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]]. He took the tonsure at age 14, taking the m ...and studied there for a time, as well as studying the secrets of Esoteric Buddhism at [[Raigo-in|Raigô-in]] in Kyoto. At the age of 30, he published a Sanskr
  3 KB (454 words) - 22:29, 23 January 2016
• Tachibana clan (kuge)
  ...enkan]] (千観) － Fourth son of Kimiyori; preacher of [[Jodo Shu]] (Pure Land Buddhism) * [[Kokei|Kôkei]] (皇慶) － Priest of [[Esoteric Buddhism]]
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• Tenets of Buddhism
  ...the efforts of the Soga clan and the regent [[Prince Shotoku]]. Shinto and Buddhism formed a close bond in Japan that continues to this day (with a rift in rel Buddhism is based upon the Four Noble Truths (''Shitai''):
  14 KB (2,328 words) - 02:30, 1 December 2014
• Meat
  ...even [[Shinran]] (1173-1262), founder of Japanese [[Jodo shinshu|Pure Land Buddhism]], is said to have eaten meat after abandoning monastic practice and return
  4 KB (555 words) - 06:40, 19 August 2020
• Kokugaku
  ...as stiff, rigid, cramped, and artificial. The school was opposed to both [[Buddhism]] and [[Confucianism]], and centered on assertions of Japan's divine origin ...dynastic line stretching back to [[Amaterasu]] herself, and Japan as the "land of the gods" (''shinkoku'', 神国). [[Motoori Norinaga]] suggested that th
  4 KB (578 words) - 09:12, 26 September 2016
• Ise Shrine
  ...In this way, the shrine buildings actually alternate between two plots of land as they are rebuilt every twenty years. Wood from the old shrine is then us ...themselves, from the old site to the newly rebuilt shrine, is performed in pure darkness. All artificial lights are extinguished, and a series of white clo
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• Zen
  ...hn Wiley & Sons (2011), 444.</ref> is one of the most prominent sects of [[Buddhism]] in Japan. It is distinguished by its rejection (to a large extent) of sac ...n considered a more strongly Chinese - that is, a less Japanized - form of Buddhism. Zen temples generally have more strongly Chinese architectural styles, sto
  15 KB (2,363 words) - 06:02, 20 June 2020
• Kamakura period
  ...of types of actors, from brigands, thieves, and those who sought to seize land & power by force, to those who wielded some rightful claim and simply sough ...ace in the period. The Pure Land (''[[Jodo shu|Jodo shû]]'') and True Pure Land (''[[Jodo shinshu|Jodo shinshû]]'') sects were established, as was that of
  13 KB (2,028 words) - 03:19, 21 February 2020
• Society of Jesus
  ...of sodomy and [[shudo|pederasty]], and of course wholly disapproving of [[Buddhism]] and [[Shinto]] as "pagan" religions, the Jesuits for the most part, at le ...missionaries even wrote that the Devil himself "had deliberately fashioned Buddhism to resemble the true faith so as to confound and confuse the people."<ref>S
  15 KB (2,177 words) - 16:07, 9 March 2018
• Kentoshi
  ...the missions navigated chiefly by watching the sun and stars, by sighting land and deciding whether that was their destination. When all went well, and th A form of ship known as ''junkôzôzen'' (lit. "pure constructed ship"), using dugout canoes as the core, with planks extended o
  18 KB (2,961 words) - 23:36, 26 August 2013
• Japanese immigration to Hawaii
  ...them to see the Japanese not as "workers," but as "small farmers," working land held in trust by Hawaii-Japanese diplomatic relations, and that they should ...s treated their workers cruelly, seeking only the most efficient inputs of pure labor, with the goal of achieving the greatest possible volume of outputs.
  28 KB (4,451 words) - 22:23, 8 October 2014

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