For all their apparent difference, classical Shinto and Japanese new religions like Mahikari did share a core belief in spirit possession. |
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On that day, children of those ages are taken to a Shinto shrine to be blessed. |
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The Shinto shrine honors convicted Japanese war criminals along with the war dead. |
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Many Shinto beliefs were incorporated into Japanese Buddhist practices after its introduction in the 6th century. |
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For example, the ancient department of Shinto rites was re-established, giving Shinto much of its structure and identity as a religion. |
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Striking an accord between modern science and ancient Shinto beliefs is the great path that is our goal. |
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Shinto has been an established part of Japanese culture for at least 2000 years. |
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Shinto reinforced already strongly-established national notions of spiritual discipline and physical fitness. |
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This is particularly true in Japan where religions such as Shinto and Buddhism believe that all things in nature have a spirit and soul. |
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The kami can be likened to nature spirits, and Shinto shrines are usually found in areas of natural beauty. |
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There are countless other Buddhist and Shinto shrines and temples in Japan. |
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Rituals like this of purification and exorcism are a traditional feature of Shinto. |
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Similarly I didn't take offence when I lived in Japan and received cards which were Shinto or Buddhist in theme. |
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I love the simplicity of Buddhism, the earthliness of Shinto and the 9 Virtues of the Asatru. |
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His status as a living, walking deity was even a fundamental part of the state religion, Shinto, of which he was the head. |
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It is in this sense that Shinto and Sikhism can be considered to be ethnic religions. |
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The Shinto priest asked for reasons the couple should not be married and had them exchange vows and rings. |
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A dominant element of Shinto is the role and appeasement of the spirits of the dead, of the ancestors. |
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It was replaced by the older form, shrine Shinto, the worship of kami in shrines or sanctuaries, tended by priests. |
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Sumo is considered sacred to the Shinto religion and wrestlers are seen as the embodiment of strength, endurance and honesty. |
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The roots of Japanese mythology are in the Shinto religion, in Taoism and in Zen Buddhism alike. |
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A mixture of Shinto, Buddhism and ancestor worship has traditionally guided many Japanese martial practices. |
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Soka Gakkai leaders had been oppressed during World War II, when Shinto was Japan's dominant religion. |
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Mount Fuji is the most beloved symbol of Japan and sacred to both Buddhist and Shinto adherents. |
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One of the first things to note about The Westin Tokyo is its extensive events facilities, which include a Renaissance chapel and Shinto Hall. |
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It does not follow a particular religion, but it certainly embraces aspects of Shinto and Zen Buddhism. |
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Nonutilitarian constructions alternately evoke mathematical models and Shinto forest spirits. |
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This idea of the tornado was based on a way of reintegrating nature into the art domain: it is a Shinto vision. |
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This assertion denies the history of Buddhist entry into Japan, in which Shinto gods were honored as bodhisattvas and Taoist and Confucian values were prized. |
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A Shinto priest blesses the ring, and it is considered holy ground. |
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Shinto reveres mountains like it reveres trees, rivers, streams and the earth. |
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Because of the concept of kami, Shinto at once affects the way tea is served, the way a package is wrapped, the way a war is fought, and the way an emperor is crowned. |
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They are also unified conceptually by the fact that all have to do with water spirits and the symbolism of Japan's indigenous animistic religion, Shinto. |
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Taki and Eiko stopped before the torii of the local Shinto shrine, staring at the cobblestone walkway surrounded by a lush, well-trimmed carpet of grass. |
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It was established in 1869 by Emperor Meiji as a Shinto shrine to commemorate the lives lost in campaigns to return direct imperial rule to Japan. |
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Shinto shrines and rituals were at first local and agricultural in nature, but eventually they became associated with larger entities, including clans and the nation itself. |
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Shinto is the expression of the ethnicity and the autochthony of Japanese by the attachment to the imperial mythology. |
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Torii, traditional gate of a Japanese Shinto shrine, delimits its enclosure to separate the spiritual world from the profane one. |
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Constructed between 1910 and 1913 by Japanese craftsmen it is in the style of a tea garden complete with Shinto Shrine. |
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The altar bore a circular mirror in an ornately carved wooden frame: an emblem of Shinto worship. |
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Matches were held at Shinto shrines, whence sumo's elaborate pre-bout rituals descend. |
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Most Japanese practice a combination of Buddhism and Shinto, but few attend religious services on a regular basis. |
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The Bureau took note with appreciation, of the report on the state of conservation of the Itsukushima Shinto Shrine submitted by the State Party. |
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Thus the Shinto religion came to be influential not only in rural areas but also in the towns as they were formed. |
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The DPJ took 44 seats while its coalition partner, Kokumin Shinto, failed to win any seats. |
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Shinto is the ancestral religion whose gods occupy the natural world down below. |
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There are Shinto prayers and Shinto rituals, but the doctrine is minimal. |
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The Shinto priest stood on the second step, the groom on the first. |
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The names of nearly 2.5 million of the fallen are inscribed here, all of whom are considered to be divine spirits worshiped under Japan's pantheistic Shinto religion. |
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Buddhism coexisted with archaic Hinduism in India and Sri Lanka, Taoism and Confucianism in China, the Bon religion in Tibet, and Shinto in Japan. |
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The native Shinto worship, too, is becoming increasingly popular. |
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Perhaps the most important of the anthropomorphic Shinto deities is the sun goddess Amaterasu, the patroness and ancestor of the Japanese emperors. |
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The new composition he has written, Amaterasu, is based on stories from the Japanese Shinto religion. |
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After its foundation in 1869, it served as the pre-eminent shrine of state Shinto, a late 19th-century fusion of an ancient religion with modern absolutist government. |
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They belong either to Zen Buddhism or Shinto, syncretism obliges. |
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The turning leaves of the maple and gingko trees around the Unesco World Heritage-listed historic area of Kyoto add an extra special dimension to its Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. |
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Crowd was huge but I made a queue for prostrating me before Shinto icons by throwing a ¥10 coin and by clapping twice my hands, participation in the Japanese spiritual enthusiasm. |
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The Shinto festival of Hadaka Matsuri sees a naked, shaved man chased through the streets of Inazawa City by up to 9,000 men clad in loincloths, all hoping to secure good luck for the year ahead by touching him. |
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Shinto was released from Buddhist administration and its properties restored. |
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Although Buddhism suffered from state sponsorship of Shinto, it had its own resurgence. |
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Important polytheistic religions practiced today include Chinese traditional religion, Hinduism, Japanese Shinto, and various neopagan faiths. |
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There was absolutely no cannibalism,'' said Mutsuhiro Takeuchi, a nationalist-leaning educator and a priest in the traditional Shinto religion. |
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For centuries, this bridge carried pilgrims on their way to two of Japan's sacred places: the mountain monastery of Koyasan and the great Shinto shrine, Kumano Taisha. |
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There is also the Itsukushima Shinto temple in Japan, or the residence and temple of Confucius in China, as well as a number of Hindu temples in India. |
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The Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines of Nara demonstrate the continuing spiritual power and influence of these religions in an exceptional manner. |
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From the late 19th century Shinto, Japan's oldest religion, was reinvented as a tool of state, serving as an ideology that helped mobilise Japanese to fight wars in the emperor's name. |
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She challenges the received logic that holds a shrine to be a Shinto institution and Shinto in turn to be a religion. |
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Like any Shinto shrine we enter through a torii. |
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He explored a bamboo forest behind the town's ancient Shinto shrine and bushwhacked through the cedars and pines on a small mountain near the junior high school. |
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Furthermore, a new State Shinto had to be constructed for the purpose. |
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For example, in Japan, Buddhism, mixed with Shinto, which worships deities called kami, created a tradition which prays to the deities of Shinto as a form of Buddha. |
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Although the Office of Shinto Worship was demoted in 1872, by 1877 the Home Ministry controlled all Shinto shrines and certain Shinto sects were given state recognition. |
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The government supported Shinto teachers, a small but important move. |
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Shinto has 100,000 shrines and 78,890 priests in the country. |
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There are also Unitarian Universalist, Baha'i, Sikh, Jain, Shinto, Confucian, Taoist, Druid, Native American, Wiccan, humanist and deist communities. |
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