Glossary

The Buddhist teaching of rebirth in the paradise of Amida, a broad current of faith rather than a single sect, embracing the Jodo and Jodo Shinshu schools among others.

The esoteric Buddhist school founded by Kukai in the ninth century, centred on Mount Koya and divided into many branches, named in records to characterise a temple.

The fusion of kami worship and Buddhism that shaped Japanese religious practice until the two were separated by government order in the early Meiji period, leaving traces in guardian shrines within temples and bell towers within shrines.