Honji suijaku
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 101 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5148-3416-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term honji suijaku or honchi suijaku (?????) in Japanese religious terminology refers to a theory widely accepted until the Meiji period according to which Indian Buddhist deities choose to appear in Japan as native kami in order to more easily convert and save the Japanese. The theory states that some kami (but not all) are in fact just local manifestations (the suijaku (???), literally, a "trace") of Buddhist deities, (the honji (???), literally, "original ground"). The two entities form an indivisible whole called gongen and in theory should have equal standing, but in history this wasn't always the case. In the early Nara period, for example, the honji was considered more important, and only later did the two come to be regarded as equals. During the late Kamakura period it was even proposed that the kami were the original deities, and the buddhas their manifestations (see the Inverted honji suijaku section below). Данное издание...