View:
- no detail
- some detail
- full detail
Bön
(Tib.).1 The ancient pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet and some neighbouring areas. It was founded by the legendary teacher Shen-rap Mi-wo (Tib., gshen-rab mi-bo) and comprises two main aspects: the ...
Buddhism in Japan
The dominant religious tradition of Japan, Buddhism first entered Japan c.5th or 6th cent. ce, from the Chinese mainland (traditionally in 538 from Korea). Initially, a few powerful clans opposed ...
Buddhist schools
(sometimes referred to as ‘sects’).These are felt by Buddhists to be primarily a matter of lineage more than credal confession. A Buddhist is a Bauddha (Skt., ‘Follower of Buddha’) ...
Deguchi Nao
(1836–1918).Female shaman and founder of the new Japanese religion, Ōmoto-kyō. Through spirit writing, originally scratching these communications with a nail, she began to attract a large following. ...
ecstasy
(Greek, standing outside)A state in which normal sense experience is suspended and the subject becomes joyfully conscious of higher things, although what the subject is aware of is then not typically ...
Eskimo
[CP]A widely used but increasingly obsolete general term for the aboriginal peoples of the Arctic regions of North America. A French transliteration of an Algonquin word meaning ‘raw‐fish eaters’. ...
Fang-shih
(Chin., ‘master of techniques’).Shamanistic controllers of magic in China in the centuries bce (though their techniques continued in popular religion long after). They were guides to the islands of ...
Hwarang Do
(Korean, ‘The Way of Flower Youth’).An indigenous institution of young aristocrats residing in the kingdom of Silla in Korea. The Hwarang corps, founded during the reign of King Chinhŭng ...
Indian Shaker Church
A new syncretist religion among Indians of NW USA and British Columbia. (There is no relation to white Shakers or Quakers.) John Slocum (?1840–97?) was a Squaxin logger near Olympia ...
Korean religion
Korea, lying as it does between China and Japan, was of such importance in the transmission of Chinese culture to Japan that its own contribution is easy to overlook. Even ...
North American mythology
Traditional beliefs of Native North Americans. Native North Americans displayed a great diversity of languages and cultures, but their mythologies had many common features. Among these was the ...
ʾPhags-pa Blo-gros-rgyal-mtshan
(c.1235–80). One of the five leading figures of the Sa-skya order of Tibetan Buddhism. He was a prolific author who addressed a wide range of topics, engaging also in correspondence ...
Shamon
Jap. for śrāmaṇa, a world-renouncer; a Buddhist monk; sometimes (dubiously) linked to shaman.
Yakutia
Constituent republic of the Russian Federation, in ne Siberia; the capital is Yakutsk. The region is bounded by the Laptev and East Siberian Seas (N) and the Stanovoy Range (S). ...
View:
- no detail
- some detail
- full detail
