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Japanese Buddhism
Joseph M. K ITAG A W A
1 . Wr i ght 1959 p , 62. Chen 1964, p. 152, c ite s the legend th a t in 454,
"a stone fig u re o f the Buddha in the likeness o f the em peror was
set up" in th e N o rth e rn Wei c a p ita l, and th a t " i t was found to
have b la ck spots on the fa c e and fe e t, corresponding e x a c tly to
sim ila r m arks on th e em peror's fa ce and fe e t. This rem a rkab le
co in cid e n ce re c a lle d an e a rlie r s ta te m e n t by F a -ku o th a t the
em peror was th e pre se n t-d a y T a th a g a ta and th e populace became
even m ore im pressed."
122 Japanese Jo u rn a l o f R e lig io u s Studies 11 /2 -3 1984
Paradigm Change in Japanese Buddhism
was not a naked ascetic but a rich and pow erful a risto
c ra t, a b rillia n t ta lke r, a respected householder and
fa th e r, a man who denied him self no luxury or pleasure
yet possessed so pure and disciplined a personality tha t
he changed a ll whom he met fo r the b e tte r (W right
1959 p. 52).
E A R LY JAPANESE RELIGION
Very lit t le o f the religious situation in Japan p rio r to the
in tro d u ctio n o f Chinese c iv iliz a tio n and Buddhism can be
reconstructed w ith c e rta in ty . Our conjectures are based
p rim a rily on the scattered references to Japan in Chinese
and Korean sources and on ca re fu lly scrutinized myths,
gentsia learned from the Y in-Y ang school not only fasci
nating cosmological theories but also the underlying
p rin cip le th a t the human mind could know the stru ctu re and
dynamics o f the mysterious universe* They also learned th a t
unlike the Japanese w o rld -view , which was derived from
th e ir "p a rtic u la r" experience, there was the "universal" law
o f Tao th a t underlies Confucian ethics, p o litic a l theory,
and legal and educational in stitu tio n s.
The paradigm o f the e a rlie r Japanese religious
universe, the sim p listic unitary m eaning-structure, in e vi
tably underwent changes.
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