HIST 9C Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heian Period, Kamakura Period, Shinran
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Popularization of buddhist faith in the kamakura period (1192-1133) Despite their doctrine of egalitarianism, temples vigorously defended the hierarchical classification of authority by naturalizing it. Yamato have slave, the heian period had outcasts. karma was the buddhist idea of causality of birth and rebirth. You need to be rich to be a buddhist. Buddhism began to define good as a class (a level in the hierarchy) If you are poor, you are excluded from salvation, and you will rot in hell t_t. If you are an outcast, you fucked up in your previous life (theory of destiny) When you are driven by greed you become gaki . A friend of kukai, also founded a tendai school in some mountain. Transformed esoteric buddhism by arguing that teaching could be transmitted through texts and textual studies. An early promotor of the practice of the nembustu. He never had a stable temple or school. Taught common people to attain salvation into the pure.
