RELIGST 2QQ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Chinese Architecture, Nature Religion, Mahayana
19 Apr 2013
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Lecture 11- shinto: shinto the way of the gods, here gods refer to japan"s spirits (kami, no known person or group as its founder. Japan land of rising sun, kojikic = record of ancient matters. Northwest and the south (including the possibility of siberia, korea, and. Two of these kami, izanami and izanagi, became the cosmic parents who created the first islands of japan: they gave birth to additional kami, many of them nature deities. From the eyes of izanagi emerged the spirits of the sun and the moon; from his nostrils came the spirit of the wind. It is the spirit of the sun, amaterasu, who sent her grandson to bring order to the islands of japan, and later came. Jimmu, the first human emperor of japan: the imperial house mythically traces its origin back to the goddess of the sun. It was the transmission of buddhism to japan in the 6th century that forced.
