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  2. Honne and tatemae - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, honne and tatemae are Japanese terms relating to a person's feelings and outward behaviors. [1] Honne refers to a person's true feelings and desires (本音, hon'ne, "true sound"), and tatemae refers contrastingly to the behavior and opinions one displays in public (建前, tatemae, "built in front", "façade").

  3. List of Japanese deities - Wikipedia

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    Bishamonten is the Japanese equivalent of the Indian Kubera and the Buddhist Vaishravana. [39] [40] Daikokuten (大黒天) Often shortened to simply Daikoku, he is variously considered to be the god of wealth (more specifically, the harvest), or of the household (particularly the kitchen). He is recognized by his wide face, smile, and flat ...

  4. Kami - Wikipedia

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    Amaterasu, one of the central kami in the Shinto faith. Kami is the Japanese word for a deity, divinity, or spirit. [4] It has been used to describe mind, God, Supreme Being, one of the Shinto deities, an effigy, a principle, and anything that is worshipped.

  5. Yin and yang - Wikipedia

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    The notion of duality can be found in many areas, such as Communities of Practice. The term "dualistic-monism" or dialectical monism has been coined in an attempt to express this fruitful paradox of simultaneous unity and duality. According to this philosophy, everything has both yin and yang aspects (for instance, shadow cannot exist without ...

  6. Nianfo - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese Pure Land sects of Jōdo-shū and Jōdo Shinshū tend to exclusively focus on the oral recitation of the nianfo. [85] Another widespread method is the mentally “holding the name” (Ch.: chi ming), in which one mentally contemplates the Buddha by repeating the name with one's inner voice. [37]

  7. Ame-no-Minakanushi - Wikipedia

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    The Kojiki portrays Ame-no-Minakanushi as the first god to appear in the heavenly realm of Takamagahara after the emergence of heaven and earth from the primeval chaos: . At the time of the beginning of heaven and earth, there came into existence in Takamanohara a deity named Ame-no-Minakanushi-no-Kami; next, Takamimusubi-no-Kami; next, Kamimusubi-no-Kami.

  8. Kotodama - Wikipedia

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    This Japanese compound kotodama combines koto 言 "word; speech" and tama 霊 "spirit; soul" (or 魂 "soul; spirit; ghost") voiced as dama in rendaku.In contrast, the unvoiced kototama pronunciation especially refers to kototamagaku (言霊学, "study of kotodama"), which was popularized by Onisaburo Deguchi in the Oomoto religion.

  9. List of dualities - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a duality, generally speaking, translates concepts, theorems or mathematical structures into other concepts, theorems or structures, in a one-to-one fashion, often (but not always) by means of an involution operation: if the dual of A is B, then the dual of B is A.