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Nichiren's Nationalism: A Buddhist Rhetoric of a Shinto Teaching

Nichiren's Nationalism: A Buddhist Rhetoric of a Shinto Teaching

Gacis, Achilles S. C.

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Shintoism

ISBN10: 1581121105
ISBN13: 9781581121100
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Published: Dec 1 2000
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.22 Depth: 8.66
Language: English

Chapter One, Religion and Nationalism in Early Kamakura Society introduces the issues that affected the nation in the early Kamakura period. The first section points out the historical background of the time that was considered to be a spiritually significant age according to Buddhist chronology. The next section on the Religious Answers to National Problems provides a prelude to how the indigenous religious tradition of Shinto attempted to define its leaders and their right to rule as well as the divine protection that was to be given them by the native deities. The imported Buddhist teachings provided a new perspective to the national problems through an examination of existing conditions as possibly being consequences of immoral acts. The various characteristics of the teachings of the most prominent Buddhist leaders of the early Kamakura period are introduced in the next section of Buddhism: Kamakura's Five Reformers. In the following four sections (Honen, Eisai, Shinran, and Dogen), a few specifics on the differences and similarities of the nationalistic perspectives of the first four Buddhist reformers are examined.

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