Honji suijaku
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Honji suijaku
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The term honji suijaku or honchi suijaku (本地垂迹) in Japanese religious terminology refers to a theory widely accepted until the Meiji period according to which Indian Buddhist deities choose to appear in Japan as native kami to more easily convert and save the Japanese. The theory states that some kami are local manifestations of Buddhist deities. The two entities form an indivisible whole called gongen and in theory should have equal standing, but this was not always the case. In the early Nara
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Japanese Buddhist theory incorporating kami into the Buddhist pantheon
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2023-12-27T22:05:11Z
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