Buddhas and Kami in Japan

Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm

Fabio Rambelli, Mark Teeuwen, Mark Teeuwen , Fabio Rambelli

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English

Routledge
28 November 2002

Interdisciplinary studies; Regional studies; Asian history; Religion: general; History of religion; Buddhism; Shintoism

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku ('originals and their traces'). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions between Shinto and Japanese Buddhism, and presents a more dynamic and variegated religious world, one in which the deities' Buddhist originals and local traces did not constitute one-to-one associations, but complex combinations of multiple deities based on semiotic operations, doctrines, myths, and legends. The book's essays, all based on specific case studies, discuss the honji suijaku paradigm from a number of different perspectives, always integrating historical and doctrinal analysis with interpretive insights.

By: Fabio Rambelli
Edited by: Fabio Rambelli, Mark Teeuwen, Mark Teeuwen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 793g
ISBN: 9780415297479
ISBN 10: 0415297478
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 28 November 2002
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Teeuwen teaches at the University of Oslo, Norway. He specialises in the history of Shinto. Fabio Ramballi teaches at Sapporo University, Japan. He specialises in the history of Buddhism, particularly Esoteric Buddhism in Japan.

Reviews for Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm

"""Even specialists will find much in it that interests them and, for the rest of us, it offers valuable insights into unfamiliar areas of traditional Japanese culture.."" -Robert Borgen, University of California, Davis"