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Shinto

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The chinese name for the native religion of Japan; comes from two Chinese words meaning “way of the good spirits”

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Kojiki

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texts which record the history of the Islands of Japan; serve as sacred texts for Shinto

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Nihon Shoki (Nihongi)

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texts which record the history of the Japanese people; serve as sacred texts for Shinto

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Izanagi

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from the Shinto creation story; the male creator kami

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Izanami

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from the Shinto creation story; the female creator kami

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Amaterasu

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the sun kami; sprung from Izanagi’s eye

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Ninigi

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grandson of Amaterasu, sent to earth to rule; first emperor

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Jimmu

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grandson of Ninigi, ruled after Bubugu; considered first human emperor found in history

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Kami

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the essence of divinity in all things; divine potential in all things natural and human (as well as divine)

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Kamidana

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the personal Shinto shrine for the home the family shrine for personal Shinto worship

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Jinja

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the public shrine for Shinto Worship

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Torii

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the gateway to a shrine; the symbol of Shinto

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Temizuya

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the cleansing trough at the entrance to a shrine; for ritual purity before worshipping at a shrine

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Haraiden

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the ritual cleaning room at a shrine. For cleansing before priestly ritual worship

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Haiden

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the worship hall in a shrine; open for both personal and priestly worship

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Noritoden

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the prayer room in a shrine; for priestly ritual prayer

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Honden

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the inner sanctum of a shrine, the holy holies, where shin tai is housed

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Shintai

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the symbol of the kami, a symbolic presence of the kami in a shrine

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Ema

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a wooden plaque bought at a shrine; a prayer is written on it and it is left at the shrine

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Omamori

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an amulet purchased at a Shinto Shrine for a particular purpose (such as good grades traffic safety etc); a sort of good luck charm

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Matsuri

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a festival celebrated at a Shinto shrine

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Mikoshi

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a sort of portable Shinto shrine; a small structure that contains the shin tai from a shrine that is paraded through the steers of the neighborhood during a matsuri

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Jodo Shu

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Buddhism

The Pure Land School of Buddhism founded by Honen

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Jodo Shin Shu

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Buddhism

The True Pure Land School of Buddhism founded by Shinran

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Amida Butsu
Pure Land Buddhism | The gracious savior in Pure Land Buddhism
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Nembutsu
Pure Land Buddhism | The recitation of the name of Amida; an act of faith (Jodo Shu), an act of gratitude (Jodo Shin Shu)
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Mappo
Nichiren Buddhism | The degenerate age of disappeared dharma when the only hope is the Lotus Sutra and the teachings of Nichiren
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Gohonzon
Nichiren Buddhism a Mandala; a graphic representation of the universe for the purposes of meditation; on of the three great mysteries of Nichiren
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Daimoku
Nichiren Buddhism a mantra; the title of the Lotus Sutra which, when chanted, unlocks all the truths of the sutra; one of the three great mysteries of Nichiren: the sacred syllables
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Kaiden
Nichiren Buddhism the meditation hall of the place pf ordination; the place that houses the Gohonzon and where the Daimoku is best chanted; one of the three great mysteries of Nichiren: the sacred setting
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Rinzai
Zen Buddhism | the school of Zen Buddhism founded by Eisai and teaching sudden enlightenment
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Soto
Zen Buddhism | the school of Zen Buddhism founded by Dogen and teaching gradual enlightenment
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Roshi
Zen Buddhism | the master in zen; a zen teacher the enlightened person in Zen
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Koan
Zen Buddhism | a meditational device for exhausting the mind: a riddle with no solution
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Mondo
Zen Buddhism | a meditation device for exhausting the mind: a kind of extended koan or narrative koan; a story without a point
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Zazen
Zen Buddhism | Seated Meditation
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Satori
Zen Buddhism | The goal in zen buddhism; the immediate intuitive awareness of Buddha-nature or zen-cnciousness; a new way of seeing
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Dainichi
Popular Buddhism | the cosmic sun-buddha; reflects light and truth in all beings
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Kannon
Popular Buddhism | the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy; female bodhisattva very popular among Japanese
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Miroku
Popular Buddhism | The Bodhisattva of wealth and success; depicted as fat and jolly
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Jizo
Popular Buddhism the Buddha of passage to the next life; guides lost and confused should through the uncertainties of the afterlife; especially helpful to young children
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Butsudan
Popular Buddhism | the home "temple"; used for ancestor reverence as well as worship of the Buddha
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Tenri-o-no-mikoto
Tenrikyo, New Religions | "Lord of Divine Wisdom," the god who possessed Miki, founder of Tenrikyo
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Oyagami
Tenrikyo, New Religions | "God the Parent" final and perfect revelation of God in Tenrikyo
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Hokori
Tenrikyo, New Religions | "dust" or sin in Tenrikyo; comes from treating things as though they were your own and being selfish
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Seimei no Jisso
Seicho no Ie, New Religions "The Reality of Life" a series of magazines written by Taniguchi Masaharu which became the scriptures of Seicho no Ie
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Shinsokan
Seicho no Ie, New Religions meditation of the reality of life in Seicho no Ie; "prayerful meditation on concentrating the mind"; it gives off good mental waves and creates good
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Shakubuku
Soka Gakkai, New Religions "breakdown and subdue" an aggressive evangelistic technique employed by Soka Gakkai
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Honen
founder of Jodo Shu (the Pure Land School)
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Shinran
founder of Jodo Shin Shu (The True Pure Land School)
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Nichiren
aggressive founder of Nichiren Buddhism
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Eisai
founder of Rinzai School of Zen, the sudden enlightenment school
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Dogen
founder of Soto School of Zen, the gradual enlightenment school
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Nakayama Miki
farmer's wife who was possessed by Tenri-o-no-mikoto; founded Tenrikyo
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Taniguchi Masaharu
founder of Seicho no Ie
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Tsunesaburo
founder of Soka Gakkai

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