Search results for "Religion in Japan" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan ... During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- and Honen saw the age they were living in as a degenerate time where ... In contemporary times, Jodo Shinshu is one of the most widely followed ...23 KB (3,447 words) - 20:10, 24 April 2023
- and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan. Zenji is a title meaning ... to be the best philosophical work written in the Japanese language. To this ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- of a basic shakuhachi, but shakuhachi vary in length from about 1.3 shaku ... the monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism in the practice of suizen (blowing ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
- made with the hands or fingers, used in meditation, iconography, dance ... In Indian religious practice, the role of mudras as a concentration ...13 KB (2,114 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of Japan at the end of the twelfth ... The Tale of the Heike was compiled in 1240 by an unknown author from ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- of Jesus (Jesuit Order), was instrumental in the establishment of Christianity ... In 1529, while attending the University of Paris, Xavier became acquainted ...15 KB (2,402 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- country = Japan | undergrad = 13,254 | postgrad = 9,198 | ... thumb|240px|right|The Clock Tower, completed in 1925, is the most recognizable ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- Buddhism, the largest religious denomination in Japan (by number of temples ... east of Fukui in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In English, its name means ...16 KB (2,429 words) - 00:05, 13 February 2024
- which gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out a ... Founded by Shoko Asahara, Aum emerged in Japan in the mid-1980s and ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 17:50, 22 August 2023
- as the bodhisattva of infinite compassion in East Asian Buddhism. The name ... spread to China, he was also first worshiped in male form, but the representation ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- and Eastern philosophy, and was instrumental in reawakening an interest in ... Watsuji Tetsuro was born in 1889 in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- of the Flourishing Law) is a Buddhist temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan ... June Kinoshita and Nicholas Palevsky, Gateway to Japan (Kodansha International ...23 KB (3,463 words) - 00:01, 25 August 2023
- His lessons and stories have been found in textbooks to provide morality ... to this supreme being is equally inscribed in the heart of every individual ...13 KB (2,132 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- South Korea or Republic of Korea, is located in East Asia at approximately ... Sea to the south; and the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east. South Korea ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- Buddhism, of Vajrayana Buddhism which spread in the eighth century from northeastern ... Shingon Buddhism arose during Japan's Heian period (794-1185 ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- was an uprising of Japanese peasants, most of them Christians, in ... After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, the Christian lords Konishi ...25 KB (3,619 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
- who discovered the agent for syphilis, in 1911. mother and teachers became a medical doctor. In 1900, he came to the U.S. and ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- (sometimes called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its ... may have declined. The concept of religion in Japan is a complex one. A ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- He was also highly celebrated as a poet in the classical form of ci lyrics ... antiquarian who encouraged his interest in ancient Chinese script and ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
