Asian folk religion and cultural interaction

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Title
"Asian folk religion and cultural interaction"
Statement of Responsibility
Yoshihiro Nikaidō
Publisher
  • V&R unipress
  • National Taiwan University Press
Publication Year
  • c2015
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • Asia Pacific only

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Includes bibliographical references

Summary: "This book uses a cultural interaction approach to discuss numerous temples and shrines of Sinitic origin that house Daoist, Buddhist, and folk gods. Such deities were transmitted outside the Chinese continent, or were introduced from other regions and syncretized. Examples include temple guardian gods that arrived in Japan from China and later became deified as part of the Five Mountain system, and a Daoist deity that transformed into a god in Japan after syncretizing with Myōken Bosatsu. The profoundly different images of Ksitigarbha in China and Japan are discussed, as well as Mt. Jiuhua, the center of Ksitigarbha in modern China, Lastly, the process by which Sinitic gods were transmitted to regions outside of the Chinese continent, such as Taiwan, Singapore, and Okinawa, is explored." -- back cover

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