Word: shintoist
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...result of that procedure, Shintoism, the national religion of Japan, was all but absorbed by the new faith, and most Shinto temples were administered by the Buddhist clergy. That state of things lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of temples were restored to purely Shintoist ownership, but very many traces of the amalgamation may still be observed in present-day Japan. The modern Japanese Buddhist pantheon is quite an international assembly containing as it does Indian, Chinese and purely Japanese personages The Tibetan and Chinese pantheons are less international, but their composite character does nevertheless...