Shintoshu

Category
HISTORY

Language
JAPANESE

The Shint?sh? .[2] It illustrates with tales about various shrines the Buddhist honji suijaku theory, according to which Japanese kami were simply local manifestations of the Indian gods of Buddhism. This theory, created and developed mostly by Tendai monks, was never systematized, but was nonetheless very pervasive and very influential.[3] The book had thereafter great influence over literature and the arts.[2]

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