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| Hospitality for The Gods: Popular Religion in Edo, Japan, an Example (Buddhism) | ||
| 作者 | Devi, Shanti |
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| 出版日期 | 1986 |
| 頁次 | 423 |
| 出版者 | University of Hawai'i |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.hawaii.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | University of Hawaii |
| 畢業年度 | 1986 |
| 摘要 | The subject of this dissertation is a religious phenomenon of the early modern period in Japan (ca. sixteenth through nineteenth centuries) called Kompira Shinko. The overall thesis is that Japanese syncretism was pragmatic and utilitarian, even opportunistic, and its purpose was to preserve harmony and to procure material benefits for a collective group. In the ultimate sense, the object of worship was the sacred mountain, regardless of whether its deity was a Shinto kami or a buddha.There are three aspects, viz. a deity, an institution and a popular cult. Kompira is the name of the deity and the popular cult (shinko). The institution was, in essence, a local sacred mountain called Mt. Elephant Head. The historic religious institution on the mountain was a Buddhist temple, but it was converted into a Shinto shrine in the late nineteenth century.I trace the origin of the temple from the amalgamation of a foreign Indian deity with the local tutelary deity of a sacred mountain, through the popularization of the mountain deity and the expansion of its cult, to the late nineteenth century when government regulation of religion caused the removal of Buddhism. I analyze the significance of this regulation, which disrupted a millenium of syncretic traditions.Kompira Shinko is a typical example of the syncretic popular religion of the common people of the Edo period. The temple on Mt. Elephant Head was rebuilt and reorganized in the late sixteenth century through the cooperation of mountain shamans (yamabushi) of shugendo, a unique Japanese form of syncretism, and the local domain lords. The identity of the deity and the myth and rituals of the mountain temple were formulated by the yamabushi, while the independence and security of the institution were guaranteed by local elites through politic connections with shogunate and imperial authorities.The deity became popular as a sea protection deity, and was especially the object of a fad in the city of Edo. The cult was primarily a pilgrimage cult, and because of the mass influx of pilgrims, the small market town at the foot of Mt. Elephant Head became one of the most well-known rural pleasure quarters of early modern Japan. |
| 點閱次數 | 271 |
| 建檔日期 | 2008.06.05 |
| 更新日期 | 2016.02.18 |
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