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| The Dialectical of Life and Death in Contemporary Sōka Gakkai | ||
| 作者 | Fisker-Nielsen, Anne Mette (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Religions |
| 卷期 | v.11 n.5 |
| 出版日期 | 2020.05 |
| 出版者 | MDIP |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.mdpi.com/ |
| 出版地 | Basel, Switzerland [巴塞爾, 瑞士] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Sōka Gakkai; Nichiren Buddhism; friends funerals; the mystic law of life and death; kōsen-rufu; buddhahood; life and death as dialectical |
| 摘要 | Doctrinal reasoning, the practice of chanting nam-myōho-renge-kyō and its vision for kōsen-rufu has been how Sōka Gakkai (SG) promulgated Nichiren Buddhism. This paper explores, in an in-depth anthropological manner, how doctrinal issues matter significantly in the meaning of funeral practices in contemporary SG. So-called Friend Funerals have become widely common and demonstrate how SG members’ understanding of death and mortuary rites differ in some significant ways from common practices in Japan. To understand why specific funeral rituals are not in and of themselves considered of primary importance when a person dies in SG, this paper discusses its reading of key tenants of Nichiren Buddhism. What hotoke or buddha means is commonly seen in Japan as something achieved upon death facilitated by specific funeral rites. How such views fundamentally differ in SG is explored here based on long-term fieldwork and participant observation, as well as interviews and review of its doctrine. The research suggests that SG members engage in a cross-generational endeavour for kōsen-rufu where personal actions—what could be described as the ‘political’ existence of this life—matters but in a non-dualistic way as this simultaneously becomes the sphere that ‘transcends’ that contemporary existence. How one views death is not only seen as something relevant at the end of life, nor only to those remaining, but is taken as a reality that becomes the impetus for giving deeper meaning to how one acts in daily life as part of a cross-generational movement. |
| 目次 | 1. Sōka Gakkai as a Collective Movement for Kōsen-rufu 2. The Mystic Law of Life and Death 3. Death, Friends Funerals, and Memorial Cemetery Parks in Sōka Gakkai 4. Life-Death as a Dialectical Process for Kōsen-rufu 5. Conclusions |
| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11050247 |
| 點閱次數 | 79 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.11.15 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.06.19 |
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