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Japan had a long-established system of folk beliefs that existed outside of and parallel to the schools of the Buddhist establishment. Many of these beliefs had an influence on the various religious schools which, in turn, influenced each other, a phenomenon known as syncretism .
The outlines of the theory can be traced back to mid-Edo period Kokugaku scholarship. [11] [12] Hirata Atsutane was among those who used their studies of Kojiki and Nihon Shoki to claim that Korean and Japanese history was intertwined from the period of ancient nation formation and that a hierarchical relationship in which Japan was dominant could be established. [11]
The history of thousands of years of contact with Chinese and various Indian myths (such as Buddhist and Hindu mythology) are also key influences in Japanese religious belief. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Japanese myths are tied to the topography of the archipelago as well as agriculturally-based folk religion , and the Shinto pantheon holds uncountable ...
Nihonjinron (日本人論: treatises on Japaneseness) is a genre of ethnocentric nationalist literary work that focuses on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity. [1] [2] Nihonjinron posits concepts such as Japanese being a "unique isolate, having no known affinities with any other race", and has been described as racist.
Table illustrating the kami that appeared during the creation of Heaven and Earth according to Japanese mythology.. In Japanese mythology, the Japanese Creation Myth (天地開闢, Tenchi-kaibyaku, Literally "Creation of Heaven & Earth") is the story that describes the legendary birth of the celestial and creative world, the birth of the first gods, and the birth of the Japanese archipelago.
Buddhist claims of superiority, however, encountered resistance; monks tried to overcome it by deliberately integrating kami in their system. [1] Japanese Buddhists themselves wanted to somehow give the kami equal status. [1] Several strategies to do this were developed and employed, and one of them was the honji suijaku theory. [1]
The theory that it was established in the 7th century with the Ritsuryo system (Okada Souji et al.) The theory that the awareness of "Shinto" was born and established at the Imperial Court in the 8th–9th century (Masao Takatori et al.) The theory that Shinto permeated the provinces during the 11th and 12th centuries (Inoue Kanji et al.)
The Mahikari movement (Japanese: 真光) is a Japanese new religious movement (shinshūkyō) that was founded in 1959 by Yoshikazu Okada (岡田 良一) (1901–1974). The word "Mahikari" means "True (真, ma) Light (光, hikari)" in Japanese. [1]