Imperial-Way Buddhist Thought: Asian Continental Propagation and the State During the Fifteen-year War

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  • 皇道仏教という思想 --十五年戦争期の大陸布教と国家--
  • コウドウ ブッキョウ ト イウ シソウ : ジュウゴネン センソウキ ノ タイリク フキョウ ト コッカ

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This paper approaches Japanese Buddhist thought during the Fifteen-year War through the idea of Kōdō Bukkyō, a neologism Buddhists used to describe themselves. It consists of two words: kōdō (the imperial way), and Bukkyō (Buddhism). Tempai, religious implements of the Shin sect's Ōtani branch, are symbolic of this notion. Focusing on them and "continental propagation", I will discuss the "Japanese Buddhism" that participated and cooperated with a state at war. Japanese Buddhists during this time thought that their religion had reached its complete form in their country thanks to the protection of the imperial family, and advocated re-exporting it to the Asian continent. Their Kōdō Bukkyō was an ideology that promoted a Buddhism of the "Japanese nation" and "Japanese people".

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  • 人文學報

    人文學報 108 97-111, 2015-12-30

    THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

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