真宗の発展 : 仏教地理的研究
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概要
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As religion is so deeply rooted in the nature of man, people of a faith usually share a common consciousness. Thus religion may be viewed as a cultural pattern. Our attempt here is to map the distribution of the ‘Shinshu’ Sect, the Buddhist sect which has the largest number of adherents in this country and is, in its doctrine, somewhat like the Protestantism in Christianity. Churches of the sect will be used as an index to draw the map.The ‘Shinshu’ sect is, we shall find, a very widely distributed sect, but it finds its followers mainly in such districts as Kinki, Tokai, Hokuriku, Tohoku (especially those provinces of the district neighboring Hokuriku), and the western provinces of Chugoku. In these districts with fertile plains and an advanced civilization, the sect has found most of its adherents among rice-field cultivators. Because of their elements of magic and mysticism, older Buddhist sects such as the ‘Shingon’ sect are mostly distributed among remote mountainous regions. The ‘Shinshu’ sect, on the other hand, has prospered in the plains and other places where people live and work, for from the beginning it asserted ordinary people and their living as such.Many of the villages where its adherents are concentrated were once visited by Shinran, the founder of the sect. They are also notable snow regions of this country. This suggests that there is some connection among those facts. It is also interesting to note that the ‘Shinshu’ sect has prospered rather poorly at Inada region in the Kanto district, the birthplace of the sect, just as Christianity is not widely accepted in Palestine regions.
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