there are more than oneschool of Buddhism? I didn’t know that when I first started my researches… …My goal is to discuss, in plain words,the history,beliefsandsymbols, among many other things, of Buddhism with a focus onJapan, where art and aestheticism is strongly influenced by the Z...
Buddhism was adopted by Japan’s rulers primarily to establish social order and political control, and to join the larger and more sophisticated cultural sphere of the mainland. Buddhism brought new theories on government, a means to establish strong centralized authority, a system forwriting, advanc...
Dreams are considered important, real, and public in some cultures, but absurd, irrational and personal in others. Japan has its own history of dreaming, and the importance of dreams has evolved through Japanese supernatural beliefs and art for centuries. "Dreams are like strange stories," says...
Japanese religion, the religious beliefs and practices of the Japanese people. There is no single dominant religion in Japan. Several religious and quasi-religious systems, including Shinto, Confucianism, and Buddhism, exist side by side, and plurality o
Japanese Yokai can be cute. On the flipside, they can be utterly evil and scary too! Here are 15 deadly Yokai you’d never want to meet, within or outside of Japan.
Common motif in Buddhist art & literature. ORIGINS India: Hindu Lore (Pre-Buddhist) & Buddhism China: Zodiac Lore (Pre-Buddhist) & Buddhism Japan: Buddhist andShintōLore SUMMARY PAGE TWO INDIA AND CHINA - MONKEY LORE.Monkey mythology is an important part of both Hindu/Buddhist lore (India)...
together into a hybrid symphony of Buddhist beliefs and practices, making Japanese monkey lore a very complex, confusing, curious, and challenging topic -- a topic that stretches back to Japan’s first encounters with Chinese Geomancy, Chinese Taoism, the Zodiac Calendar, and Mahayana Buddhism. Th...
(literally, “the way of the gods”), a religion that developed in Japan and, alongside Buddhism, one of the most widely practiced religions in Japan. Shinto grew out of ancient cults of nature and ancestor worship. According to Shinto, each human individual is descended from one of the in...
The mummified monks of the Yamagata province had belonged to the Shingon school of Buddhism, which combined esoteric Buddhism with native Shinto beliefs. These Shingon monks practiced extreme asceticism, believing that physical deprivation allowed them to see beyond the illusion of the physical world....
CourtesyMetropolitan Museumof Art (New York) Says Barbara B. Ford at the New York Met: "Originally a blood-sucking man-eating demoness, Dakiniten was converted by the Vairocana (Dainichi) Buddha into a powerful life-engendering deity. In the complex interaction of Buddhism, Shinto, and ...