Buddhism introduced many Hindu Gods and Goddesses to the Japanese. The rulers were the first to be attracted to them. Historical records show that they earnestly believed in the miracles of these divinities promised in the sutras. Many miracle stories started appearing in popular literature as the divinities percolated down to the masses. The resulting naturalisation process in the case of some divinities went to the extent that they became an integral part of the native Shinto pantheon. Their popularity remains unabated even today. The Tantric Buddhist sects also played a vital role in propagating the divinities. They regularly worshipped the divinities in their temples where people thronged in large numbers. Many steps in these ceremonies, for instance, the homa ritual, are very familiar to the present-day Hindus. The monks have also produced a considerable volume of religious literature related to these divinities. Descriptions of many divinities show that they have not changed substantially over centuries. A study of these writings also shows that a large volume of Hindu myths and legends related to these deities were transmitted to Japan. These writings are also a testimony to the way the ancestors of the present-day Hindus thought about these deities, say, around the eighth or ninth century of the Christian era.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Saroj Kumar Chaudhuri
Prof. Saroj Kumar Chaudhuri taught Japanese in the School of Foreign Languages, New Delhi, university of Delhi, and Aichi Gakusen University of Toyota City, Japan. For a year he was in the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo, as a Visiting Professor. He has written two books so far, Siddham in China and Japan dealing with the contributions of Sanskrit phonetics to Chinese and Japanese, and Hindu Gods and Goddesses in Japan. He is teaching Japanese in Delhi University at present as a Guest Professor. He is also associated with the Indira Gandhi national center for the arts, New Delhi, as a Consultant
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Hindu Gods and Goddesses in Japan
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1st ed.
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8179360091
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xviii+184p., Illustrations.
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