WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The mix of these two religions is also rooted in people’s everyday lives in Japan even today. Many Japanese have both Shinto god shelves (kamidana) and Buddhist altars (butsudan) in their house and observe Shinto rites for marriage and Buddhist rites for funerals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shinbutsu shūgō, in Japan, amalgamation of Buddhism with the indigenous religion Shintō. The precedents for this amalgamation were laid down almost as soon as Buddhism entered Japan in the mid-6th century, and the process of blending Buddhism with Shintō has dominated the religious life of the people up to the present.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the Meiji era (1868 to 1912), Japan’s nationalist leadership expelled Buddhist influence from kami worship and formed State Shinto, which some historians regard as the origin of Shinto as a distinct religion.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Japanese religious tradition is made up of several major components, including Shinto, Japan’s earliest religion, Buddhism, and Confucianism. Christianity has been only a minor movement in Japan.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the history of Japan, Buddhism and Shintoism were closely knit together, and there are rituals where forms of Shinto and Buddhism are both mixed. Hence, it can be difficult to recognize the differences between the two.