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    The Japanese term shinbutsu bunri (神仏分離) indicates the separation of Shinto from Buddhism, introduced after the Meiji Restoration which separated Shinto...
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    Shinbutsu-shūgō (神仏習合, "syncretism of kami and buddhas"), also called Shinbutsu-konkō (神仏混淆, "jumbling up" or "contamination of kami and buddhas"), is...
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    separation of kami and foreign Buddhas (shinbutsu bunri) with the Kami and Buddhas Separation Order (神仏判然令, Shinbutsu Hanzenrei). This event triggered the...
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    with persecution and a forced separation between Buddhism and Shinto (Shinbutsu bunri). As of 2022, around 70.8 million people, or about 67% of Japan's total...
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    consequences for Japanese culture as a whole. It should not be confused with shinbutsu bunri ("separation of kami and buddhas") or with haibutsu kishaku ("abolish...
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    as Himeji Castle survived by luck. During the Meiji restoration's Shinbutsu bunri, tens of thousands of Japanese Buddhist religious idols and temples...
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    Jingū-ji (category Shinbutsu shūgō)
    danka system (檀家制度, danka seido) participated in the movement. The shinbutsu bunri policy was also the direct cause of serious damage to important cultural...
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    Asakusa Shrine (category Shinbutsu bunri)
    Asakusa Shrine (浅草神社, Asakusa-jinja) is a Shinto shrine in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, Japan. Also known as Sanja-sama (Shrine of the Three gods), it...
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    Haibutsu kishaku (category Shinbutsu bunri)
    (1928-1941) Martyrs of Japan Persecution of Buddhists Shinbutsu bunri Shinbutsu kakuri Shinbutsu-shūgō Tokugawa Nariaki Buddhist crisis Chittagong Hill...
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    on road sides. Before the forced separation of Shinto and Buddhism (Shinbutsu bunri), it was not uncommon for a Buddhist temple to be built inside or next...
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    to the Meiji period's policy of separation of Buddhism and Shinto (Shinbutsu bunri) of 1868. Before the Meiji Restoration it was common for a Buddhist...
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    Japan together with Buddhism.. When the Japanese Empire enforced the Shinbutsu bunri, the official separation of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, shrines...
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    indigenous Japanese spirit. Under attack by two policies of the day, shinbutsu bunri (Separation of Shinto Deities and Buddhas) and haibutsu kishaku (Eradication...
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    ("Palace of Suiten") in Tokyo. After the Japanese emperor issued the Shinbutsu bunri, the separation of Shinto and Buddhist practices as part of the Meiji...
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  • Buddhism. Shinbutsu shūgō (神仏習合) – The syncretism of Buddhism and local religious beliefs, the normal state of things before the shinbutsu bunri. Shinsen...
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    suijaku Shinbutsu-shūgō Gongen Nenbutsu Death poem Zen garden Zazen Daimoku Sōhei Ikkō-ikki Butsudan Obon Kaichō Kanjin Senjafuda Danka system Shinbutsu bunri...
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    concrete keep was built for Nagoya castle. During the Meiji restoration's Shinbutsu bunri, tens of thousands of Japanese Buddhist religious idols and temples...
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    pressure on Japanese Zen during the Meiji Restoration to conform to Shinbutsu Bunri. Sweetman mentions: Wilhelm Halbfass (1988), India and Europe IXth...
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    in the mid-1500s by Catholic missionaries". Haibutsu kishaku Shinbutsu bunri Shinbutsu kakuri Shimabara Rebellion Crypto-Christianity Hidden Christian...
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    the shogunate, this involved the separation of Shinto and Buddhism (shinbutsu bunri) and the associated destruction of various Buddhist temples and related...
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    rites until the Meiji period, when the government forbade with the shinbutsu bunri policy the mixing of Shinto and Buddhism. bodai – from the Pāli and...
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    suijaku Shinbutsu-shūgō Gongen Nenbutsu Death poem Zen garden Zazen Daimoku Sōhei Ikkō-ikki Butsudan Obon Kaichō Kanjin Senjafuda Danka system Shinbutsu bunri...
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    followed the official policy of separation of Shinto and Buddhism (shinbutsu bunri) many of the city temples were damaged. In other cases, because mixing...
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    Restoration (1868), the state forced a separation of Shinto and Buddhism (shinbutsu bunri) and abolished the Chokusai Hōe (Imperial Rituals). The Shingon school...
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    Ernest Fenollosa (category Shinbutsu bunri)
    Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (February 18, 1853 – September 21, 1908) was an American art historian of Japanese art, professor of philosophy and political...
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    anti-Buddhist violence, in particular that of the early Meiji period. See also shinbutsu bunri. haimyō (俳名) – a "haiku pen-name". It was common in the Edo period...
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    Okakura Kakuzō (category Shinbutsu bunri)
    Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三, February 14, 1863 – September 2, 1913), also known as Okakura Tenshin (岡倉 天心), was a Japanese scholar and art critic who in the...
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    worshiped together with Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya).) The separation policy (shinbutsu bunri) was the direct cause of serious damage to important cultural assets...
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  • to look like when they rebuilt it. During the Meiji restoration's Shinbutsu bunri, tens of thousands of Japanese Buddhist religious statues and temples...
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    Japan together with Buddhism.. When the Japanese Empire enforced the Shinbutsu bunri, the official separation of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, shrines...
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