Asian Folk Religion and Cultural Interaction
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Asian Folk Religion and Cultural Interaction

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Asian Folk Religion and Cultural Interaction

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This book uses a cultural interaction approach to discuss numerous temples and shrines of Sinitic origin that house Daoist, Buddhist, and folk gods. Such deities were transmitted outside the Chinese continent, or were introduced from other regions and syncretized. Examples include temple guardian gods that arrived in Japan from China and later became deified as part of the Five Mountain system, and a Daoist deity that transformed into a god in Japan after syncretizing with My?ken Bosatsu. The profoundly different images of Ksitigarbha in China and Japan are discussed, as well as Mt. Jiuhua, the center of Ksitigarbha in modern China. Lastly, the process by which Sinitic gods were transmitted to regions outside of the Chinese continent, such as Taiwan, Singapore, and Okinawa, is explored.

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Publisher
V&R unipress
Year
2015
ISBN
9783847004851
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Science General
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Body
  5. Foreword
  6. Section I: Cultural Interaction and Sinitic Gods in Japanese Buddhist Temples
  7. Chapter 1: Temple Guardian Gods in the Sino-Japanese Five Mountain Temple System and Cultural Interaction
  8. Chapter 2: Temple Guardian Gods of the Ōbaku School of Zen Buddhism and Cultural Interaction
  9. Chapter 3: Cultural Interaction: Myōken Bosatsu 妙見神 and the God Zhenwu 真武
  10. Chapter 4: Differences and Cultural Interaction between the Japanese and Chinese Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha
  11. Section II: Travels and Cultural Interaction of the Gods in Asia
  12. Chapter 1: Temples and Cultural Interaction in Taiwan and Singapore
  13. Chapter 2: Sinitic Gods and Cultural Interaction in Nagasaki and Okinawa
  14. Conclusion