Battleground of the Gods - The Historical Relationship Between Buddhism and Shinto in Japan

[@CommanderRadix]

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[@woodenpikes6631]

Finally a video with a well researched and accurate description of Shinto theology. It takes frighteningly long to find content which takes Shinto seriously.

[@refindoazhar1507]

This video started as history and evolution of religions in japan and ended up as a social commentary about the modern country

[@Austrian1991]

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[@thepotatoshow1887]

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[@Jippa_33]

Sweet Optimus Prime! I have one just like it from when I was a youngster. Informative video , thank you I enjoyed it.

[@eltontan4340]

dang didnt expect the video to end in a depressing note lol seems to be the truth for many other Asian countries as well. Love the history videos~

[@lovestarlightgiver2402]

Many Japanese people still go to the Shinto Shrines sometimes to pray. There's no point of prayers if there are no gods. If they were really atheists, the shrines would be more like museums, or only used for traditions like the burning of incenses on the New Years. I don't think most of Japan is atheist (not believing in gods/kami). I think they're just very secular and only pray to the gods/kami sometimes.

[@eltontan4340]

@@lovestarlightgiver2402 similar with my ethnicity,many of us still go to temples and pray sometimes but I think for some of the youth it's partly because of tradition and culture todayI guess maybe irreligious would be a word to describe them? personally I think Asian religion generally just works differently from other religions such as Christianity or Islam.

[@lovestarlightgiver2402]

​@@eltontan4340 Yes, irreligious or non-religious is a more accurate word, than the word atheist, because the word atheist makes it seem like they don't believe in gods at all, and don't pray at all to gods. In the west, there are atheists who celebrate christmas and eat food with family and exchange gifts due to tradition, but they don't pray since they don't believe in gods at all.

[@Taiyo_Jingu]

Shintō resonates with me as a Westerner.

[@donaldponder6462]

A very wonderful overview of Japanese spirituality...it puts a coherent context to what I've absorbed in dribs & drabs over the years, having an interest in Japanese culture since I studied Macrobiotics (traditional unrefined Japanese diet/medicine/ philosophy) from 1965-74 under world leader Japanese genius Michio Kushi (1926-2014) in the Boston, Massachusetts area, a movement to bring ancient Japanese principles & lifestyle to the West, which philosophy was said to derive more from Taoism than from Buddhism (even though th diet was known as the "Zen Macrobiotic" diet...so it pops up to me now, having seen this presentation as to where & how Taoism threads through Japanese spirituality and lifestyle...after all Zen Buddhism coming from Chan Buddhism in China is said to have resulted from the intersection of Buddhism coming from India with the indigenous Chinese Taoism, just as in Japan there was an intersection of Buddhism with the indigenous Japanese Shinto...

[@Whatalovelyday90]

Wow! And here I want to make a Gohei to cleanse my room of Negative energy, hoping I have the gods blessing to do so.

[@perretti]

So Shinto came from Korea?

[@CommanderRadix]

If I had to answer that question in one word, that word would be "possibly." But that can lead to misconceptions, so I want to qualify that: For one, "Shinto" as we categorize it by the term wouldn't really have come into place until after the arrival of Buddhism in order to differentiate the preceding Japanese religious beliefs before the coming of Buddhism. So long as we can understand that using the term "Shinto" is anachronistic but required for talking about pre-Buddhist Japanese spiritual beliefs, then we're good. The main misconception that can arise from saying "Shinto came from Korea" is that the listener could understand that to mean that Shinto was the religion of the Korean people (as in primary ancestors to the modern Korean people) that was passed down from them to the ancient Japanese (as in primary ancestors to the modern Japanese people) in Japan. That is not what happened. The ancient Japanese essentially lived in Korea with their proto-Shinto beliefs and then moved over to Japan. The ancient Koreans entered the peninsula afterwards/pushed out the ancient Japanese. Another thing to keep in mind is that it is difficult to understand to what degree Jomon beliefs influenced/contributed to/developed into Shinto. It's possible that Shinto's foundations come from the Jomon (though I think this is unlikely due to some context and similar practices seen in ancient Japanese-inhabited southern coastal Korea, see "Maritime Ryukyu by Gregory Smits). So in short, it is probably accurate to say that essence of the folkways that would become Shinto came from Korea to Japan, but it is not accurate to say that Shinto is "Korean."

[@Jareers-ef8hp]

LONG LIVE IMPERIAL JAPAN 🇯🇵

[@cpostclothesrack2012]

Without the brutality ofc.

[@Jareers-ef8hp]

@@cpostclothesrack2012 The brutality is what made them GigaChads

[@Jareers-ef8hp]

@@cpostclothesrack2012 Imperial Conquest is what made them GigaChads