The Mobilization of Doctrine: Buddhist Contributions to Imperial Ideology in Modern Japan
In response to Shintoist criticism of Buddhism in the early 1930s, a group of prominent Buddhists and Buddhologists wrote articles on Buddhism and Japanese spirit for a special issue of Chūō Bukkyō in 1934. They highlighted historical connections between Japanese Buddhism and the state, and drew cor...
| Published in: | Japanese journal of religious studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
[1999]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 1999, Volume: 26, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 83-106 |
| Further subjects: | B
Blessings
B Emperors B Wisdom B Morality B Zen Buddhism B Religious Studies B Priests B Regalia B Shintoism |
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| Summary: | In response to Shintoist criticism of Buddhism in the early 1930s, a group of prominent Buddhists and Buddhologists wrote articles on Buddhism and Japanese spirit for a special issue of Chūō Bukkyō in 1934. They highlighted historical connections between Japanese Buddhism and the state, and drew correspondences between Buddhist doctrines and various Shinto and Confucian concepts that were central to discourses on Japanese culture and the imperial system in the early-Shōwa period. In drawing those doctrinal correspondences, they aligned Japanese Buddhism with main components of the imperial ideology at that time. |
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