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Exam 3: Japan Flashcards

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Shinto

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The chinese name for the native religion of Japan; comes from two Chinese words meaning “way of the good spirits”

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Kojiki

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texts which record the history of the Islands of Japan; serve as sacred texts for Shinto

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Nihon Shoki (Nihongi)

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texts which record the history of the Japanese people; serve as sacred texts for Shinto

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Izanagi

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from the Shinto creation story; the male creator kami

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Izanami

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from the Shinto creation story; the female creator kami

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Amaterasu

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the sun kami; sprung from Izanagi’s eye

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Ninigi

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grandson of Amaterasu, sent to earth to rule; first emperor

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Jimmu

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grandson of Ninigi, ruled after Bubugu; considered first human emperor found in history

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Kami

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the essence of divinity in all things; divine potential in all things natural and human (as well as divine)

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Kamidana

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the personal Shinto shrine for the home the family shrine for personal Shinto worship

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Jinja

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the public shrine for Shinto Worship

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Torii

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the gateway to a shrine; the symbol of Shinto

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Temizuya

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the cleansing trough at the entrance to a shrine; for ritual purity before worshipping at a shrine

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Haraiden

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the ritual cleaning room at a shrine. For cleansing before priestly ritual worship

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Haiden

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the worship hall in a shrine; open for both personal and priestly worship

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Noritoden

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the prayer room in a shrine; for priestly ritual prayer

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Honden

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the inner sanctum of a shrine, the holy holies, where shin tai is housed

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Shintai

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the symbol of the kami, a symbolic presence of the kami in a shrine

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Ema

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a wooden plaque bought at a shrine; a prayer is written on it and it is left at the shrine

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Omamori

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an amulet purchased at a Shinto Shrine for a particular purpose (such as good grades traffic safety etc); a sort of good luck charm

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Matsuri

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a festival celebrated at a Shinto shrine

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Mikoshi

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a sort of portable Shinto shrine; a small structure that contains the shin tai from a shrine that is paraded through the steers of the neighborhood during a matsuri

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Jodo Shu

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Buddhism

The Pure Land School of Buddhism founded by Honen

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Jodo Shin Shu

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Buddhism

The True Pure Land School of Buddhism founded by Shinran

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Amida Butsu

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Pure Land Buddhism

The gracious savior in Pure Land Buddhism

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Nembutsu

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Pure Land Buddhism

The recitation of the name of Amida; an act of faith (Jodo Shu), an act of gratitude (Jodo Shin Shu)

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Mappo

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Nichiren Buddhism

The degenerate age of disappeared dharma when the only hope is the Lotus Sutra and the teachings of Nichiren

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Gohonzon

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Nichiren Buddhism
a Mandala; a graphic representation of the universe for the purposes of meditation; on of the three great mysteries of Nichiren

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Daimoku

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Nichiren Buddhism
a mantra; the title of the Lotus Sutra which, when chanted, unlocks all the truths of the sutra; one of the three great mysteries of Nichiren: the sacred syllables

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Kaiden

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Nichiren Buddhism
the meditation hall of the place pf ordination; the place that houses the Gohonzon and where the Daimoku is best chanted; one of the three great mysteries of Nichiren: the sacred setting

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Rinzai

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Zen Buddhism

the school of Zen Buddhism founded by Eisai and teaching sudden enlightenment

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Soto

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Zen Buddhism

the school of Zen Buddhism founded by Dogen and teaching gradual enlightenment

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Roshi

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Zen Buddhism

the master in zen; a zen teacher the enlightened person in Zen

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Koan

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Zen Buddhism

a meditational device for exhausting the mind: a riddle with no solution

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Mondo

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Zen Buddhism

a meditation device for exhausting the mind: a kind of extended koan or narrative koan; a story without a point

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Zazen

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Zen Buddhism

Seated Meditation

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Satori

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Zen Buddhism

The goal in zen buddhism; the immediate intuitive awareness of Buddha-nature or zen-cnciousness; a new way of seeing

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Dainichi

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Popular Buddhism

the cosmic sun-buddha; reflects light and truth in all beings

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Kannon

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Popular Buddhism

the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy; female bodhisattva very popular among Japanese

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Miroku

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Popular Buddhism

The Bodhisattva of wealth and success; depicted as fat and jolly

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Jizo

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Popular Buddhism
the Buddha of passage to the next life; guides lost and confused should through the uncertainties of the afterlife; especially helpful to young children

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Butsudan

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Popular Buddhism

the home “temple”; used for ancestor reverence as well as worship of the Buddha

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Tenri-o-no-mikoto

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Tenrikyo, New Religions

“Lord of Divine Wisdom,” the god who possessed Miki, founder of Tenrikyo

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Oyagami

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Tenrikyo, New Religions

“God the Parent” final and perfect revelation of God in Tenrikyo

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Hokori

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Tenrikyo, New Religions

“dust” or sin in Tenrikyo; comes from treating things as though they were your own and being selfish

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Seimei no Jisso

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Seicho no Ie, New Religions
“The Reality of Life”
a series of magazines written by Taniguchi Masaharu which became the scriptures of Seicho no Ie

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Shinsokan

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Seicho no Ie, New Religions
meditation of the reality of life in Seicho no Ie; “prayerful meditation on concentrating the mind”; it gives off good mental waves and creates good

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Shakubuku

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Soka Gakkai, New Religions
“breakdown and subdue”
an aggressive evangelistic technique employed by Soka Gakkai

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Honen

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founder of Jodo Shu (the Pure Land School)

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Shinran

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founder of Jodo Shin Shu (The True Pure Land School)

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Nichiren

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aggressive founder of Nichiren Buddhism

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Eisai

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founder of Rinzai School of Zen, the sudden enlightenment school

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Dogen

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founder of Soto School of Zen, the gradual enlightenment school

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Nakayama Miki

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farmer’s wife who was possessed by Tenri-o-no-mikoto; founded Tenrikyo

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Taniguchi Masaharu

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founder of Seicho no Ie

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Tsunesaburo

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founder of Soka Gakkai

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