Buddhism,Shinto and the Oracles of the Three Shrines.

Prof. Brian Bocking
Bath College of Higher Education
圓光佛學學報(1997.10)
圓光出版社發行
P. 121-142


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Brian Bocking is Professor and Head of the Study of
Religions Department at Bath Spa University College,
UK. He studied religion at the Universities of
Lancaster and Leeds and was formerly lecturer in
Japanese religions at the University of Stirling,
Scotland and the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He has
written widely in the area of Sino-Japanese
religions. His publications include Nagarjuna in
China: A Translation of the Middle Treatise (Edwin
Mellen Press, 1995) and A Popular Dictionary of
Shinto (Curzon Press, 1996)



Abstract

The Oracles of the Three Shrines (Japanese: sanja
takusen) is the name of a distinctive type of hanging
scroll which has been continuously produced in Japan
for almost 600 years. The scroll provides a useful
window through which to view the development of
Japanese religion from the medieval period to modern
times. In this paper, which is part of a larger
research project on the sanja takusen, I will attempt
a comparison of two different versions of the scroll.
My aim is to elucidate some changes and continuities
in Japanese religion, particularly around the time of
the separation of kami and Buddhas (shinbutsu bunri
or shinbutsu hanzen) of 1868.
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