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By Yoshiro Tamura
Buddhism reached Japan in 538
C.E. Assimilated into Japnese culture and refashioned as Japanese
Buddhism, it became one of the most enduring and far-reaching
cultural and intellectual forces in Japan's history.
The stamp of Japanese Buddhism
is unmistakable in the nation's poetry, literature, and art;
and the imprint of Japan's indigenous culture is clear in
such unique faces of Japanese Buddhism as the amalgamation
of pre-Buddhist worship and esoteric Buddhism in the practice
of the Shugend? ascetics.
Japan's Buddhism and the nation's
cultural matrix are so inextricably linked that it is impossible
to explicate the one without understanding the other. Thus
the present book is both a history of Japanese Buddhism and
an introduction to Japan's political, social, and cultural
history. It examines Japanese Buddhism in the context of literary
and intellectual trends and of other religions, exploring
social and intellectual questions that an ordinary history
of religion would not address.
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