Asian folk religion and cultural interaction / / Yoshihiro Nikaido.

• Superior document: Global East Asia ; Volume 2
• VerfasserIn: Nikaidō, Yoshihiro, 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, [Germany] ; : V&R unipress :, Taipei, Taiwan : : National Taiwan University Press,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Global East Asia ; Volume 2.; V&R academic.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 pages) :; illustrations (some color), photographs.
• Notes: "With numerous figures."

"This book uses a cultural interaction approach to discuss numerous temples and shrines of Sinitic origin that house Daoist, Buddhist, and folk gods. Such deities were transmitted outside the Chinese continent, or were introduced from other regions and syncretized. Examples include temple guardian gods that arrived in Japan from China and later became deified as part of the Five Mountain system, and a Daoist deity that transformed into a god in Japan after syncretizing with Myōken Bosatsu. The profoundly different images of Ksitigarbha in China and Japan are discussed, as well as Mt. Jiuhua, the center of Ksitigarbha in modern China, Lastly, the process by which Sinitic gods were transmitted to regions outside of the Chinese continent, such as Taiwan, Singapore, and Okinawa, is explored." -- back cover.