... between this and the “other” realms. They protected and maintained borders by exporting impurities and other ... negotiating with the deities of pestilence as to which person in the village was to be targeted by disease.63 Thunder ...
... realm , low - class yaka remain as they are and become oni to serve the shitennō . Those oni called jaki ( evil oni ) who are stepped on by shitennō at temples are of ... between Buddhist deities, Shinto kami, and oni. Michizane fell.
... Buddha.30 Mapping distant landscapes onto new locales, as these examples suggest, afforded local practitioners an ... between them resulted in the Tōnomine stūpa's destruction. The compilation of narratives affiliating the ...
Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination Melissa Anne-Marie Curley. a disjunction between outer behavior and inner motive, or social ritual and inner sentiment, did not simply eliminate external ritual while ...
... buddha or bodhisattva who constitutes the honzon or ritual focus of the particular memorial rite. Significantly, however, none of these explanations makes reference to the need to help the deceased negotiate the hells or other realms of ...
... negotiating , philosophically and otherwise , the boisterous community of people , kami , and Buddhist divinities ... realm of the senses . The kami and the Buddhist gods , at once different , are also the same ; kami are the ' manifest ...
... between references, presenting itself as “sometimes Buddha, sometimes God” (Toki ni hotoke, toki ni kami).53 The ... negotiations with its surrounding space. The statue obstinately entrenches itself in its seat, its rectilinear ...
... Buddhist divinities , they contributed to the further erasure of the significance of Susanoo as a kami since Susanoo was represented as no more than a manifestation of Buddhas or Bodhisattvas . The hongan post , like the insertion of ...