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Shinto sects and schools

Index Shinto sects and schools

, the folk religion of Japan, developed a diversity of schools and sects, outbranching from the original Koshintō (ancient Shintō) since Buddhism was introduced into Japan in the sixth century. [1]

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Abe clan

The was one of the oldest of the major Japanese clans (uji); and the clan retained its prominence during the Sengoku period and the Edo period.

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Agency for Cultural Affairs

The is a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

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Amaterasu

,, or is a deity of the Japanese myth cycle and also a major deity of the Shinto religion.

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Asceticism

Asceticism (from the ἄσκησις áskesis, "exercise, training") is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from sensual pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.

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Astrology

Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events.

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Ōmiwa Shrine

, also known as, is a Shinto shrine located in Sakurai, Nara, Japan.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Church of World Messianity

The Church of World Messianity (世界救世教 Sekai Kyūsei Kyō in Japanese), abbreviated COWM, is a Japanese new religion founded in 1935 by Mokichi Okada.

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life.

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Department of Divinities

The, also known as the Department of Shinto Affairs, was a Japanese Imperial bureaucracy established in the 8th century, as part of the ritsuryō reforms.

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Dharma

Dharma (dharma,; dhamma, translit. dhamma) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.

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Divination

Divination (from Latin divinare "to foresee, to be inspired by a god", related to divinus, divine) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual.

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Edo

, also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Folk religion

In religious studies and folkloristics, folk religion, popular religion, or vernacular religion comprises various forms and expressions of religion that are distinct from the official doctrines and practices of organized religion.

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Haruhisa Handa

is a Japanese religious leader and a businessman.

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Hayashi Razan

, also known as Hayashi Dōshun, was a Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher, serving as a tutor and an advisor to the first four shōguns of the Tokugawa ''bakufu''.

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Hōei

was a after Genroku and before Shōtoku. This period spanned the years from March 1704 through April 1711.

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Hiyoshi Taisha

is a Shinto shrine located in Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan.

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Ise Grand Shrine

The, located in the city of Ise, Mie Prefecture of Japan, is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese new religions

Japanese new religions are new religious movements established in Japan.

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Jōmon period

The is the time in Japanese prehistory, traditionally dated between 14,000–300 BCE, recently refined to about 1000 BCE, during which Japan was inhabited by a hunter-gatherer culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.

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Jingū-ji

Until the Meiji period (1868–1912), the were places of worship composed of a Buddhist temple and of a shrine dedicated to a local kami.

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John Breen (scholar)

John Lawrence Breen (born 3 March 1956) is a British academic and Japanologist.

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Kami

are the spirits or phenomena that are worshipped in the religion of Shinto.

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Kamo Shrine

is a general term for an important Shinto sanctuary complex on both banks of the Kamo River in northeast Kyoto.

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Kikkawa clan

The was a prominent samurai clan of Japan's Sengoku period.

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Kiso District

is a district located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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Ko-Shintō

refers to the original animism of Jōmon period Japan which is the alleged basis of modern Shinto.

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Konkokyo

, or just Konkō, is a religion and spiritual way of living of Japanese origin.

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Kurozumikyō

Kurozumikyō (黒住教), literally "the Teachings of Kurozumi," is a Japanese religion largely derived from Shinto roots and founded in 1846.

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Mahikari

Mahikari is a Japanese new religious movement (shinshūkyō), with a number of variants or offshoots.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Mark Teeuwen

Mark J. Teeuwen (Marcus Jacobus Teeuwen, born 9 February 1966, Eindhoven) is a Dutch academic and Japanologist.

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Mount Fuji

, located on Honshū, is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft), 2nd-highest peak of an island (volcanic) in Asia, and 7th-highest peak of an island in the world.

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Mount Ontake

, also referred to as, is the 14th highest mountain and second highest volcano in Japan (after Mount Fuji) at.

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Nakatomi clan

was a Japanese aristocratic kin group (uji).

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Nara Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Nichiren Buddhism

Nichiren Buddhism is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th century Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren (1222–1282) and is one of the "Kamakura Buddhism" schools.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Onmyōdō

is a traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology, a mixture of natural science and occultism.

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Onomancy

Onomancy (haplological for Onomamancy or Onomatomancy) is divination based on a subject's given name, popular in the Late Middle Ages, usually following practices of Gematria.

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Oomoto

, also known as, is a religion founded in 1892 by Deguchi Nao (1836–1918), often categorised as a new Japanese religion originated from Shinto.

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PL Kyodan

, is a Japanese Shinshūkyō (new religious movement) founded in 1924 by Tokuharu Miki (1871–1938), who was a priest in the Ōbaku sect of Zen Buddhism.

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Prince Shōtoku

, also known as or, was a semi-legendary regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan who served under Empress Suiko.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Saraswati

Saraswati (सरस्वती) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, wisdom and learning worshipped throughout Nepal and India.

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School of thought

A school of thought (or intellectual tradition) is a collection or group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy, discipline, belief, social movement, economics, cultural movement, or art movement.

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Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan (see below for other names) is a marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula and Russia.

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Sect

A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political, or philosophical belief system, usually an offshoot of a larger group.

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Seicho-no-Ie

Seichō no Ie, is a syncretic, monotheistic, New Thought Japanese new religion that has spread since the end of World War II.

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Sekai Shindokyo

is a Japanese new religion originated from Shinto.

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Shinbutsu-shūgō

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 the syncretism of Buddhism and kami worship that was Japan's only organized religion up until the Meiji period.

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Shingon Buddhism

is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asia, originally spread from India to China through traveling monks such as Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra.

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Shinji Shumeikai

(often abbreviated to Shumei) is a Japanese new religious movement (shinshūkyō).

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Shinmeiaishinkai

is a Japanese new religious movement founded by Komatsu Shin'yō in 1976.

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Shinto

or kami-no-michi (among other names) is the traditional religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past.

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Shinto sects and schools

, the folk religion of Japan, developed a diversity of schools and sects, outbranching from the original Koshintō (ancient Shintō) since Buddhism was introduced into Japan in the sixth century.

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Shugendō

is a highly syncretic religion that originated in Heian Japan.

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Siddhaṃ script

, also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, is a script used for writing Sanskrit from c. 550 – c. 1200.

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Spirit possession

Spirit possession is a term for the belief that animas, aliens, demons, extraterrestrials, gods, or spirits can take control of a human body.

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Tachibana clan (samurai)

This article is about the Tachibana (立花) samurai clan.

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Taoism

Taoism, also known as Daoism, is a religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao (also romanized as ''Dao'').

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Tendai

is a Mahayana Buddhist school established in Japan in the year 806 by a monk named Saicho also known as.

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Tenrikyo

, sometimes rendered as Tenriism, is a Japanese new religion which is neither strictly monotheistic nor pantheistic, originating from the teachings of a 19th-century woman named Nakayama Miki, known to her followers as Oyasama.

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Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the, was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868.

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Tsushima Island

is an island of the Japanese archipelago situated in the Korea Strait, approximately halfway between the Japanese mainland and the Korean Peninsula.

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University of Hawaii Press

The University of Hawaii Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiokinai.

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Vairocana

Vairocana (also Vairochana or Mahāvairocana, वैरोचन) is a celestial buddha who is often interpreted, in texts like the Flower Garland Sutra, as the Dharma Body of the historical Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama).

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Vajra

Vajra is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond.

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Watarai, Mie

is a town located in Watarai District, Mie Prefecture, Japan.

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Womb Realm

In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Womb Realm (garbhakoṣadhātu, 胎蔵界 taizōkai) is the metaphysical space inhabited by the Wisdom Kings.

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Yamazaki Ansai

was a Japanese philosopher and scholar.

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Yoshida Kanetomo

was a Japanese Shinto priest of the Sengoku period.

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Yoshida Shintō

also frequently referred to as was a prominent sect of Shintō that arose during the Sengoku period through the teachings and work of Yoshida Kanetomo.

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Yoshida Shrine

is a Shinto shrine located in Sakyō-ku in Kyoto, Japan.

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Zen

Zen (p; translit) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism.

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Zenrinkyo

is a Shinto-based Shinshūkyō (Japanese new religion) founded in 1947.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto_sects_and_schools

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