Hokke Shinto - Hoke Shinto

Japanese: 法華神道 - ほっけしんとう
Hokke Shinto - Hoke Shinto

It is one of the Buddhist Shinto beliefs based on the idea of ​​Shinto-Buddhist syncretism, and is preached in the Nichiren sect. It originates from the thought of Nichiren, but its origins lie in the fact that when Ennin (Jikaku Daishi) copied the Lotus Sutra in a proper manner at Yokawa on Mount Hiei and enshrined this sutra in the Konpon Nyohodo, he invited 30 deities (originally 12 deities) to be the guardian deities of the Lotus Sutra. The 30 deities are believed to be the guardian deities of the Lotus Sutra, with famous deities from all over Japan taking turns protecting the Lotus Sutra each day, and were thought up under the influence of Buddhist ideas such as the Thirty Days of Buddha's Names. The basic document of the Buddhist Shinto (Theoretical Shinto) theory in the Middle Ages is the writing "Banjin Mondo-ki" by Urabe Kanetomo. Nichiren had already studied Shinto under Yoshida Kaneyasu, so Hokke Shinto and Yoshida Shinto are made up of doctrines that are very closely related.

[Haruki Kageyama]

[Reference] | Thirty Gods

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

神仏習合思想に基づく仏教神道の一つで、日蓮(にちれん)宗において説かれる。日蓮の思想に発するが、その根源は、比叡山(ひえいざん)の横川(よかわ)で円仁(えんにん)(慈覚大師)が『法華経(ほけきょう)』の如法写経を行い、この経典を根本如法堂に安置したとき、三十番神(初めは十二番神)を勧請(かんじょう)して『法華経』の守護神としたことに発している。三十番神は、日本国中の著名な神々が1日ずつの交替で『法華経』を守るという信仰で、仏教の三十日仏名(ぶつみょう)などの思想の影響を受けて考えられたものである。中世における仏教神道(理論神道)説の基本となる文献は卜部兼倶(うらべかねとも)の著述『番神問答記』である。すでに日蓮は吉田兼益について神道を学んでいるので、法華神道と吉田神道とはきわめて近い関連をもつ教義から成り立っている。

[景山春樹]

[参照項目] | 三十番神

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