Tradition
Shugendō
Overview
Japanese religious tradition blending elements of Shinto and Buddhism (Shingon, Tendai) originating in the 7th century, said to be founded by En no Gyōja
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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He points out that, until recent times, the religion of Japan was Buddhism, to the practical exclusion of every other. There had been, in very ancient times, a native religion called Shinto, and it had lingered on obscurely. But it is only during the last forty years or so that Shinto has been erected into a State religion, and has been reconstructed so as to suit modern requirements.[48] It is, of course…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
States what Shugendō is.
The circle of sacred objects cannot be determined, then, once for all. Its extent varies infinitely, according to the different religions. That is how Buddhism is a religion: in default of gods, it admits the existence of sacred things, namely, the four noble truths and the practices derived from them.[65]
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
States what Shugendō is.
These two world religions, which dominate the main centres of spiritual culture, do not, surely, owe their supremacy over other religious cults to the external conditions of their origin. Indeed, these conditions differ in the two cases.
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Shugendō; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Japan
- Kamakura period
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- Shinto
- Taoism
- World War II
- Cambridge
- Vajrayana
- Cambridge University Press
- Asceticism
- Meiji era
- Divination
Place in the tradition
Part of Zen.