Japanese Traditions Flashcards
1
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Religion in Japan
A
is personal, but pluralistic
2
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Kami
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8 million spirits associated with specific natural phenomena, powers, places
3
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Seeking Benefits
A
Efficacy of prayers to get what one desires
4
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The Kami
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Worship of the Kami can align the world, life-energy circulating throughout phenomenal world
5
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Kojiki
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Regional stories containing the creation story
- Kami couple (Izanagi and Izanami) created world
- Wife gives birth to fire and is fatally burned
- He kills the baby and goes to underworld to convince his wife to return
- He promises not to look at her but does and she says that 1000 of his subjects will die daily but 1500 will be born to compensate
6
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Greatest Japanese Bodhisattva
A
Kannon
7
Q
Unsettled Spirits
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People who have lost their lives to powers beyond there control have become angry
- rituals to pacify the spirits
- Shamans were specifically for their appeasement
8
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Pure Land Salvation
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Essentials of Salvation - six realms of existence
- Hell, hungry ghosts, demonic beings, animals, human beings, heavenly beings. - through which every being musth pass to reach perfection of the pure land
