HIST 9C Lecture 7: Religion and the State
Document Summary
A history of buddhism from the 8th to the 11th century. Ordinary people can now go to heaven even though they don"t have the linguistic skills to memorize scripts. Buddhist revolution, made it popular amongst the commoners. Buddhism introduced by the soga and other immigrants from. It gained official support (yamato court) in 587. Promise of prosperity and safety, protection of the four. Ceremonial rituals // costs a lot of money, you need to be of a certain status to afford it. Centralization and consolidation of society under the universal belief system. Shotoku used buddhism to achieve the new organization of society. Tenmu and jito constructed temples and used them to store tax records lol. Organized ceremonies and rituals for purification (fending off evils), restricted hunting, fishing, and the eating of meat (believ that valued the lives of all sentient beings) The chinese resisted it (didn"t go with daoism +
