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- The term honji suijaku or honchi suijaku (本地垂迹) in ****anese religious terminology refers to a theory widely accepted until the Meiji period according...
- of the fusion took place in the 9th century with the development of the honji suijaku (本地垂迹) theory according to which ****anese kami are emanations of...
- Kyūji (旧辞), also known as Honji (本辞) and Sendai no Kuji (先代旧辞), is an ancient ****anese historical text. Its existence is recorded in the Kojiki which...
- disentangling what were thereafter construed as the two distinct entities. The term honji suijaku expresses a ****anese Buddhist theory according to which a perceived...
- thought called honji suijaku (本地垂迹), which argued that kami are simply local manifestations (the suijaku or "traces") of the Buddhas (honji, "true nature")...
- Tenjin no Honji (天神の本地) is a ****anese otogi-zōshi in two scrolls, likely composed at the end of the Muromachi period. In the reign of the Engi Emperor...
- or "original ground" (honji) of all Buddhas (thereby reversing the old honji suijaku theory which saw the Buddha as the honji). This idea can be found...
- ****an, including Tendai and Shingon Buddhism, gained acceptance because of honji suijaku practices. For example, a kami could be seen as a manifestation...
- shrine-temple complex consisted of several buildings, among them a main hall (honji-dō (本地堂)), a pagoda, a Buddhist gate (mon) and a betsu-in (別院, the monks'...
- 2003. The district was created on October 1, 1898, when both Ashida and Honji districts merged. On February 3, 2003, the last town, Shin'ichi (新市町; -chō)...