The Origin Of Religious Tolerance

Re:My favorite Emperor quote(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.03 22:01 (#17442858) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.03 2:56)
This view might have been introduced in Western world, but it kept on clandestine in domestic scene. Despite his remarks, Buddhism was targetted by not only fanatic nationalists but the general public and anti-Buddhism iconoclasm occurred sponteneously all over Japan in Meiji era (1868 -1911). This movement hit particularly new born Buddhism, I think traditional Buddhism sects and temples survived.
Back in 1549, Christianity was accepted at first and started prevailing all over Japan. It was 1614 when Shogun Ieyasu implemented Christianty Prohibition Decree, following a severe persecution afterward.
Today in Japan, people hold wedding ceremony at Christian church, at the end of the year they hear the 108 sounds of bell from Buddhist Temples, at the beginning of the year they pay a visit to Shintoism shrines, then funeral ceremony was almost all cases held under Buddhism tradition. But these intermixture of religion had never appeared before the authentic introduction of American value since 1945.
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