Japanese New Religions in the West by Peter B. Clarke Jeffrey Somers

Author:Peter B. Clarke, Jeffrey Somers [Peter B. Clarke, Jeffrey Somers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781134241385
Google: dSaMAQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18T04:52:28+00:00

Footnotes

* This paper first appeared in an IAHR conference volume on the theme of the role of religion in forming and maintaining individual and group identity.

1. Another text has 'our divine missions', seeking a translation element for the ten of tenmei.

2. Text inside cover of magazine Heywa (sic), No. 18, November 1982.

3. Sometimes sokoku, 'ancestral country', is added after 'Nihon'.

4. Text frequently reproduced in Goi-Sensei's handwriting.

5. Text in Sekaikakkoku no sekaiheiwa no inori, Ichikawa n.d. but 1983.

6. Heywa, No. 18, November 1982, inside cover.

7. Goi, Masahisa, Sekai heiwa no inori, Ichikawa 1982, p.10.

8. Goi, Masahisa, Hannyashingyó no atarashii kaishaku, Ichikawa n.d. but 1983.

9. Heywa, No. 18, November 1982, inside cover, and many other places. The Japanese text of this summary is worth noting, for it tells us that man is a participatory spirit or a sub-spirit (wake-mitama) of the 'original God'. The English version is in general rather free, and it should also be noted that in the last sentence we read 'enlightenment' where the Japanese has 'true salvation' (makoto no sukui).

10. Published posthumously by White Light Association, Ichikawa 1983, this work is described as constituting the 'liturgical documents of the Master's White Light Association' (page 1, note). As the selections do not appear to be used liturgically or to be at all suitable for such use, the implication is probably that they represent an authorised core of representative extracts from his otherwise voluminous writings.

11. The address of the headquarters is: Byakkō Shinkōkai, 5-26-27 Nakakokubun, Ichikawa-shi, Chiba-ken 272, Japan.

12. Sekaikakkoku no sekaiheiwa no inori (c.f. note 5), p.110.

13. Ibid., p.179.

14. Born in 1941 (and a descendant of the Ryukyuan royal family) Mrs Saionji is the 'Chair Person' of the society (kaichó). There is also a president (rijichó), Mr Yosuke Seki (name in Western order).

15. Goi, Masahisa, God and Man, page 56 (explained in translator's note).

16. Thus described in a Japanese-language promotional postcard from headquarters.

17. Byakkó, 11, 1984, p.54. The autobiography referred to was first published by the White Light Association at Ichikawa in 1955.

18. Ibid., p.55.

19. This ceremony is thus in principle similar to the goma ceremony in Shingon Buddhism, in which simple prayers written by believers on short lengths of wood are burned in the temple by the priests. In the Shingon case the burning symbolises, at least for the priests, the consuming of the this-worldly attachments which are the object of the petitions. It is not clear whether this dialectic is intended in the burning of Goi-Sensei's postbag.

20. Ibid., p.40.

21. Goi, Masahisa,Sekaiheiwa no inori, Ichikawa 1982, pp.8ff.

22. Ichikawa, n.d. but 1985.

23. Goi, Masahisa, Zenshú (13 Vols.), Ichikawa 1980.

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