Thursday, October 6, 2016
This week in Religions of The World we started talking about Shinto. Shinto is a religion created in Japan. It is very similar to Buddhism, and in fact almost 90% of Japanese consider themselves both Buddhist and Shinto. To describe Shinto is like finding the difference from Shinto to Buddhism. Shinto is used for major life events, including birth and marriage. Where as Buddhism is for death, and everything after death. Shinto shrines are very clean areas where people go to worship a deity. Although in Shinto their is an infinite number of Deities, not a single person. So when people worship they worship to all deities, hoping for one to respond. This is also the same thing for Buddhism but they call their deity Buddha. These religions are usually hand and hand, and only 13% of people identify as one religion. Next week we will be learning a more in depth lesson on Shinto.
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Buddhism sprouted off of the religion Hindu and was based off their practices, beliefs, etc. and the man himself was a Hindu as well and made his own religion which he brought east. Shinto may have been created off the religion Buddhism but is it more comparable to that than Hindu? I know that in Hindu the concept of dietys is similar and that there are millions, but Buddhism only has one. Also, if Buddhism is focused on the afterlife and Hindu is focused on the beginning and current, then how do they consider themselves to be both religions when they focus on opposite periods of one's life?
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