Haibutsu kishaku
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The burning of sutras during Haibutsu kishaku
Haibutsu kishaku ( Japanese 廃 仏 毀 釈 , literally: " Abolish Buddhism and destroy Shākyamuni ") is a term that describes a recurring trend in the history of Japan that aimed to ban Buddhism from Japan. This term has a special meaning in relation to events during the Meiji Restoration , as a result of which many Buddhist temples, statues and documents were destroyed. In the wake of these events, many Buddhist clergymen were forced into secular lives.
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literature
- John Breen, Mark Teeuwen: Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami . University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2000, ISBN 0-8248-2363-X ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- James Ketelaar: Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and its Persecution. Princeton 1990