How did Japan become Buddhist? - History of Religions DOCUMENTARY 

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Before the Meiji Period, Buddhism and Shinto co-exist. A lot of Buddhist Temples have a Shinto Shrine connected with them. Japan was able to assimilate Buddhism into its culture. Oddly, Buddhism became associated with burial rites. Oddly in Japan, one is born in the Shinto faith. Then they get married in a Christian Chapel, When they died, their funeral is held at a Buddhist Temple. So one is born Shinto. Married Christian. Died as a Buddhist.

Bodhisena’s arrival to Japan in the mid 700s had a profound impact on Emporer Shomu which led to the wider acceptance of early Buddhism in society

Ah yes, after previously talking about how Buddhism came to China, now you are talking about how Buddhism came to Japan, I really enjoyed it, especially the music in the beginning, great video as always. Btw, can you make video about how Hinduism came to Indonesia, kings & generals? It is will be very interesting because Indonesia is the only country outside the Indian subcontinent where Hinduism was the majority religion in medieval era.

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I've had the pleasure to visit Kamakura and Kyoto, in the summer of 2018. Felt very enlightened at my experience in Japan. Beautiful temples and shrines.

It's so sad to know that people have forgotten the importance of India in spreading Buddhism across the eastern world. It's the monks from India who went out in the wild and crossed mountains to reach as far as Japan to preach Buddhism. Even people who are buddhists are unaware of the Indian history, they do not know where their religion originated and what it took to reach the places. The influence of Indian subcontinent specifically India on the eastern world is beyond imagination. Its time for India to make sure this information is reaching places.

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Thank you for producing this; one of my favorite areas to study and something I worked hard on for my MA. Its very nice to see it so nicely explained and amazing artwork.

Fascinating, as always!

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Well, that was comprehensive. Pretty cool kings and generals. Pretty cool! Now, I have to go learn much information about Shinto. Hai

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Yes it's buddhism........who shaped Japan......now Japan we know it's more scientific, rational and atheist it's because of Buddhism....... impacted Japanese minds and culture......very beautiful culture.......please preserve buddhism and Japanese culture......it's applicable to all Buddhist countries.

It's quite fascinating how Buddhism can be mixed quite heavily with local believe like what happened in China, Korea, and Japan. I wonder if this mixed believe would also happened if it's Hinduism which come to China and Japan first or if Hinduism can spread like Buddhism at all

Fascinating video. I'm loving the religion-focus. Could you possibly cover the Kalmyk people, some of Europe's first Buddhists.

Please make more videos on the history of religions.

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kings and generals I'm really enjoying your history of religion series please continue to do more of this wonderful contents. also another fascinating religion you could look at is the growth of the Church of the East, or called by many Nestorian Christianity, and how it was at one period of time having much more adherance then their western conterparts until it fell over time and finally mostly dying out in many areas during Timur's time with the exception of the assyrians of mesopetamia and iraq.

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please add more content like this, history is not all about wars and military tactics!

I haven't lost faith that you'll return to finish Toyotomi Hideyoshi's rise to power (plz do).

compliment for your extensive knowledge, however 11:42 Jenogan where is this word from, I was never recognize of this dynasty even if I'm not historian

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Buddhist however was at some point in Japanese history to be separated from Shinto, but they were so entertwined that sometimes it was difficult to do so.

Buddhism has co-existed quite peacefully with the native faiths in various Asia regions, the spirit of "live and let live" prevail and flourish.

I'm so grateful for east and south east asians for accepting, preserving, and promoting buddhism.

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Yo kings and generals 👋 Can you do more content on the Horn of Africa a little more I'd love to see more on the ancient history of the macrobians and the land of punt along with the Somali and arab traders in the gulf of aden. Cushitic culture as a whole is very underrated, especially for how little known it is even though it is so ancient.

I would love to see how Buddhism made it to Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Laos and Burma next! And if it is possible, please do a video about how Albania converted to Islam after the Ottoman Empire conquered Albania.

15 yr Buddhist practitioner here (Korean, version tho); took basic precepts in 2008. It’s great to see this channel- who covers all the medieval & ancient stuff that I love, all of a sudden cover a topic that is paramount in my life, even though I would not have thought based on your regular content, that the subject of Buddhism would be a fit for your channel. There is little militarily to speak about in terms of it. Not nothing, but very little, and in regard to its actual history, not it’s doctrine-which is obviously anti violence altogether. I can’t say I know much about the Japanese history with Buddhism, but I can say from my own experience, that Buddhism isn’t really a religion. At least not in the sense of literally every other religion in the world. Faith essentially takes no part in core Buddhist teachings. In fact, faith was left to Hinduism & Vedic yogis according to Siddartha Gautama, as a thing that was simply not of any use to what he was looking for, which was an answer to suffering. His take on faith based religion was, “maybe it’s real, maybe it’s not; but irregardless, the religions do not appear to have an answer for suffering that is practical, so let’s leave them where they’re at, and look elsewhere for our answers.” So he didn’t seek to create a competing religion, he left the idea of religion to itself, and essentially created what we could quite accurately think of as a 2600 yr old program of psychotherapy, the way someone who lived 2600 years ago would dream up such a thing, so long before the concept of science would ever appear. And the 8 fold path of Buddhism is what he came up with. A way to live and interface with the world that gave us the best possible means to deal with suffering, and grants us peace and contentment-no matter what our circumstances are. And the roots of all this is simple an eternal, self critical, search for what is true in life, and what is essentially delusion. So… …Buddhism refutes no religion, and one can practice Buddhism as a member of any religion-at least from the Buddhist perspective. I doubt Islam would be tolerant of their members practicing Buddhism for example, but the reverse isn’t true. Buddhism was never going to conflict with Shintoism, which is a heavily nature driven ideology. A nature ideology mixes extremely well with Buddhism. Probably better than with the religions of any place it travelled through during the great spread eastward. It is relatively easy for Buddhism to gain a foothold in a culture that isn’t heavily - stubbornly dogmatic about their current beliefs, because the conversation simply begins with some ideas that no sane, reasonable person can refute, because these ideas are veritable to the nature of reality. And once people have that conversation, their minds open a bit, and they think, “this thing might have a lot more to teach us.” And so long as there isn’t already a cultural willingness to be attached hard to a delusional, dogmatic belief system, that just cannot be bent- otherwise certain people would loose their grip on power-the Buddhism could just slid in right next to whatever’s already there. This happens everywhere you have a people willing to engage in an ongoing discourse about the nature of reality. And I’ll leave it with this: ever wondered why Buddhism is, and always has been vehemently rejected by the Abrahamic religions? See: “delusional, dogmatic belief systems, that are held hard so as to avoid loosing a grip on power. “

As with war history, use of animation and color palettes. I saw it in automatic translation, thought it was an excellent script. Introduction of matchlock guns to Tanegashima, would also like to see a video on this topic. Thanks For Luck (^^♪

Have you done a video on the Austronesian Expansion?

I appreciate this video in English with Western pov, in midst of fruitless disputes over whether it was Chinese or Korean that brought civilization to ancient Japan, you wrote both.

Good synopsis.

Good animation

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@16:45 I think there is a mistake in classifying Nichiren as Pure Land since Nichiren wrote many criticisms of the Pure Land sect. I tried link the encyclopedia Britannica page but the comment kept getting deleted.

Interesting

More on East Asia would be greatly appreciated

That Total War soundtrack is too good.

Loving the Japan stuff let's do more of the Meiji era

Can you make video on bodhisena?

What is the song at the end of the video?

love the video. However the map is wrong in 0:32. You have 2 eastern weis. It should be eastern and western wei. 東魏 西魏

Always great to see Asian history!

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Does someone know when the next part of the Alexander the Great series is uploaded?

If you'll be doing more videos on religious history, please do one on Ethiopian Christianity and how after the Arab Conquests of the 7th century cut its direct geographic links to the Byzantine world, it carried on for centuries as a (more or less) isolated religious community between Islamic neighbors to the north and east, and more traditional African belief systems to the west and south.

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Recently, RU-vid have sent me multiple Japanese videos but this video is making me curious about the religious

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Brilliant as always. Appreciate to expressing the Shintoization of JP Buddhism and division of roles. Just to pick one point, I hesitate to call Nichiren leader of Pure Landism. He denied both the Pure Land and Amitabha, and believed only in Buddha

Now, at the "Bodh Gaya" (place where Buddha gained enlightenment in India) there are Japanese Buddhist temples as well as Chinese 1. Also I saw a lot of monks from South East Asia around the place.

Can you do a video on the St. Thomas Christians of Southern India?

Can you do a video on the Ainu and Okhotsk peoples that span from northern Japan & Manchuria over the bearing strait into Alaska? Culture & trade etc and their relation to indigenous Americans would be an interesting topic

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So, Nakatomi are a clan, as well as a business empire with a skyscraper office building at 1 Nakatomi Plaza.

Make a video on Tiger of Mysore (Tipu sultan)

you should do more history in china about later dynasties like the Jin the qing the liao and the song

Why isn't Bodhisena mentioned in the video?

All very interesting and well presented, except for the annoying ‘popping’ noises in the background.

@Kings and Generals could you please make a video about How did Iran become Zoroastrian? - History of Religions DOCUMENTARY

I would be interested in more videos on Japanese religious culture because it's quite the complex tale. Thank you very much for another interesting one here! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

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Japan and Budhism are so deeply intertwined that as a young kid I used to think that Budhism came from Japan, i am from India 😋🤣

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Standing inside the Kamakura Buddha was quite the experience.

And many things related to Buddhism have different names in Japanese: -Vajra in Japanese is 金剛 (Kongō) -Asura in Japanese is 阿修羅 (Ashura) -Rakshasa in Japanese is 羅刹 (Rasetsu)

Katakana, one of the three parts of the Japanese writing system, developed as a result of Buddhist monks during the Nara period transcribing Chinese texts.

The Lotus Sutra isn't the root of the Zen school. That was the Lankavatara Sutra

"The new Prince wants everybody to try this hot new religion from Baejke." Prince: Please try this religion. Everybody: *NO!* Prince: *TRY ITTT!* Everybody: No... "And so the religion was put into place."

0:30 wait, why are there two "Eastern Wei" on the map? Shouldn't one of them be "Western Wei"?

Shintos didn't want Buddhist monks to take their place, so when the Portuguese arrived in Japan along with Jesuits for gaining converts, the Shinto initially welcomed them as it could curb the power of the Buddhists.

The Legacy of Alexander the Great, still expands even after his death. The statue of Buddha in Japan were inspired mostly by the hellenistic Greco-Buddhist art form of India and Bactria. It's intriguing to see how an art form traverse all the way and somehow connected people, From the Greeks all the way to the Japanese in the corner of the world.

Who knew learning about Buddhism in Japan could lead to such tasty snacks?

Do the Shinobi next

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This may not be a mistake at all but two different nations are called eastern wei at 0:32

@3:40 The timeframe is 7th century or so, the focus is on Korea and the text box reads "In Korea the indigenous script was linked to women and commoners while Chinese script was seen as elite and masculine". Was this supposed to be a statement about Japan at this time? Korean Hangul isn't invented until the 15th century. This seems pretty basic to be honest.

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Sad that we are hearing so many Indian words here which are related to Buddhism, but nothing regarding direct Indian Buddhist influences like Bodhisena or Siddham script.

Pretty wild that they named a period after an Evangelion character

The map with two Wei's and Liang is quite bad. The Wei on the West is Western Wei, and Eastern Wei never extended its influence South of the Yangtze.

can you make a video about how did Bangladesh become muslim??