Robert Duquenne The hidden face of the Rising Sun Solar symbolism is a dominant feature in Japanese religion as a whole. Since 1868, however, the separation of Shinto and Buddhism and the institution of the former into a State cult have led to a partial view, based essentially on the autochtonous mythology in its official versions. The radiant figure of Amaterasu, the solar deity claimed as an ancestor by the imperial clan, and all mythological episodes which present the growing of the Japanese nation as a conquest of celestial light overcoming chthonic darkness: these are, broadly speaking, the only aspects of Japanese solar symbolism recognised by the official teaching, which prevailed until 1945. The one aspect concealed since 1868 is t...
A remarkable group of Japanese Buddhists traveled to Chicago\u27s Columbian Exposition to participat...
The World as Transposed Symbolic Representation : Japan under the Edo Dynasty and the Mitate Univers...
<p>From 1868-1912, Japan underwent a rapid transformation into a modern nation state. This period of...
On Japanese Pantheism The idea of a consubstantial relation between the national territory and the ...
A curious myth of the creation of Japan can be found in many medieval Japanese literary texts. When ...
In Japanese Buddhist sculpture and painting of 7th and 8th centuries, several bodhisattva have their...
RELIGIONS IN JAPAN There are three main religions In Japan, Shinto Indigenous to Japan, Buddhism or...
P(論文)This is a study of mandalas unique to Esoteric Buddhism and the influence they had on religious...
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As the personification of the ultimate truth, Mahavairocana (the Great Sun) cannot be perceived. He ...
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The Emperor Ojin and the Indo-European Myth of the Sun's Birth. The Kojiki and the Nihonshoki give ...
A talisman on a wooden strip excavated from a well at the site of the Fujiwara Palace in Asuka (Japa...
Buddhism was first introduced into Japan in the middle of the sixth century, when several successive...
Places, ancestors and cereals : Gods of the land in Japan Japanese gods of the land are often desc...
A remarkable group of Japanese Buddhists traveled to Chicago\u27s Columbian Exposition to participat...
The World as Transposed Symbolic Representation : Japan under the Edo Dynasty and the Mitate Univers...
<p>From 1868-1912, Japan underwent a rapid transformation into a modern nation state. This period of...
On Japanese Pantheism The idea of a consubstantial relation between the national territory and the ...
A curious myth of the creation of Japan can be found in many medieval Japanese literary texts. When ...
In Japanese Buddhist sculpture and painting of 7th and 8th centuries, several bodhisattva have their...
RELIGIONS IN JAPAN There are three main religions In Japan, Shinto Indigenous to Japan, Buddhism or...
P(論文)This is a study of mandalas unique to Esoteric Buddhism and the influence they had on religious...
Bernolles Jacques. Le « symbolisme » du damier sur les poteries de la haute époque asiatique et le m...
As the personification of the ultimate truth, Mahavairocana (the Great Sun) cannot be perceived. He ...
Rain and Wind, Images of Destiny : The Emperor's Power and Weather Control in Japan The imperial l...
The Emperor Ojin and the Indo-European Myth of the Sun's Birth. The Kojiki and the Nihonshoki give ...
A talisman on a wooden strip excavated from a well at the site of the Fujiwara Palace in Asuka (Japa...
Buddhism was first introduced into Japan in the middle of the sixth century, when several successive...
Places, ancestors and cereals : Gods of the land in Japan Japanese gods of the land are often desc...
A remarkable group of Japanese Buddhists traveled to Chicago\u27s Columbian Exposition to participat...
The World as Transposed Symbolic Representation : Japan under the Edo Dynasty and the Mitate Univers...
<p>From 1868-1912, Japan underwent a rapid transformation into a modern nation state. This period of...