Buddhism

Shinto & Buddhism: Wellsprings of Japanese Spirituality Article written by Paul Watt for the Asia Society's Focus on Asian Studies, Vol. II, No. 1, Asian Religions, pp. 21-23, Fall 1982. Copyright AskAsia, 1996. The Japanese religious tradition is rich and complex, encompassing within it both complementary and contradictory trends in religious thought and practice with an ease that may occasionally puzzle the Western observer. At the very heart of the tradition stand Shinto, the indigenous religion of Japan, and …

…International, 1980. Illustrated with photographs. Shinto: Nature, Gods and Man in Japan, a film presentation by the Japan Society. Except for the undue stress given to the distinction between the sacred and the secular and the place of images in Shinto, a useful and beautiful film. Available from the Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New York, N.Y. 10017; also available from the Audio Visual Library of the East Asian Studies Program at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana 47374.