The Discipline of Pure Fire Saika Gyo Ho in Shinto-buddhism: Tracing the Roots of a Fire Ritual in Japanese Religious Traditions - Hardcover

Boyd, James W.; Williams, Ron G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773415521 ISBN 13: 9780773415522

Verlag: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 2011

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This comparative study documents and analyzes the creation of a Shinto-Buddhist fire ritual, the Discipline of Pure Fire (Saika gyo ho) performed monthly at Tsubaki Grand Shrine, Mie Prefecture, Japan. The late Yamamoto Yukitata Guki created this fire ritual by draming on "the ancient heritage of Japanese religion," incorporating both Shingon Buddhist and Shugendo (Japanese mountain asceticism) practices. A comparative analysis of this ritual with fire rites from these two traditions provides us with a means of examining the kinds of creative adaptations, innovations and guiding principles that brought about the birth of this unique Shinto-Buddhist ritual fire.

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James W. Boyd is emeritus professor of philosophy at Colorado State University. Boyd graduated from Northwestern University with a Ph.D in history of religions and has specilized in South Asian Buddhism, Zoroastrian studies and Japanese Shinto. Ron G. Williams is professor of philosophy at Colorado State University. He received his Ph.D in philosophy from Stanford University. He works in the fields of art interpretation and ritual studies.

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• Verlag: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0773415521
• ISBN 13: 9780773415522
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 78
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