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| Decree Of Perdition |
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| Deguchi (or Watarai) Nobuyoshi |
A hereditary priest, lecturer and writer of the Geku shrine of the Jingu and the most important spokesman of the revived Shinto of the Tokugawa period. At the age of six he was assistant to the gon-negi. He is referred to also as Watarai, Nobuyoshi since he was originally from the Watarai family. His works include the yofukki (Return to yang) which reorganized Ise or Watarai shinto along the lines of Confucianism, the Daijingu shinto wakumon (questions on the Shinto of the great shrine of Ise) of 1666 by which he sought to rescue Ise or Watarai Shinto from its current obscurity within the geku priesthood, and various commentaries on the gobusho Unusually for Shinto theorists he developed an idea of salvation—that on death a good man would go to sit between Amaterasu and Ame-no-minaka-nushi. He became the Shinto tutor of Yamazaki Ansai. Deguchi's lectures and writings moved Ise Shinto away from Buddhism towards popular Confucian morality linked to religious observances. His concept of "natural" Shinto may have influenced Motoori, Norinaga's early thinking |
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| Deguchi, Nao |
She came to prominence as the near-destitute widow of a drunken and spendthrift carpenter with whom she had eleven children, the majority of whom died in tragic circumstances. In January 1892 she dreamed of the spirit world and shortly afterwards was seized in a violent divine possession by the deity Ushitora no and began prophesying around the town. She was discovered to have healing powers and attracted a group of believers in the Kyoto area. In 1898 she was approached by Ueda, Kisaburo (= Deguchi, Onisaburo) who had similarly experienced a divine revelation. Ueda married Nao's daughter Sumi and subsequently worked with Nao to develop her teachings as the religion called Omoto-kyo. The main teachings of the early movement are found in Nao's o-fude-saki ('from the holy pen'; written prophecies and oracles) which amounted by the end of her life to more than 10,000 sections. The gist of her teaching, as developed with Onisaburo, was that the world as it stood was socially unjust and cosmically disordered and was about to be "reconstructed" under the glorious reign of Ushitora-no-konjin, the primal deity. This would be brought about by followers realising that they were united with the kami |
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| Deguchi, Onisaburo |
Born Ueda, Kisaburo, son of a peasant family near Kyoto, in 1898 he had a mystical experience and met Deguchi, Nao with whom, in a remarkable life filled with incident, he subsequently worked to organise and propagate the teachings of Omoto-kyo. He took the family name Deguchi in 1900 when he married Nao's fifth daughter, Sumi, and adopted the controversial personal name Onisaburo in 1904 (see Omoto) In 1921 as a result of the Omoto-kyo teaching that salvation began with the ordinary people under his leadership he was accused of lese-majeste (injurious affront to the sovereign) and imprisoned, while the Omoto headquarters was attacked. When released on bail Onisaburo dictated his compendious "reikai monogatari' (tales of the world of the spirits) an account of his initiatory adventures in the spirit-world twenty-three years earlier when he had been told by the king of the underworld that he was to be the messiah between the two worlds and had joined up with Deguchi, Nao. Onisaburo later joined up with right-wing thinkers and went to Manchuria where he set up the kurenai manjikai (red swastika association) founded the sekai shukyo rengokai (federation of world religions) and took part in the Esperanto movement. He was imprisoned from 1935-42, again on charges of lese-majeste. The Omoto headquarters was once more attacked by the police and this time reduced to dust. Ater the war he lived quietly in retirement and Omoto teachings took a completely different tack, defending the postwar "peace" constitution. On this basis Omoto-kyo has had considerable success in the postwar period. Apart from his leadership and organisational skills Onisaburo had considerable talents as a poet, calligrapher, potter and painter |
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| Dengaku |
A form of ceremonial music and dance originating in rice-planting songs and later incorporated into shrine festivals in Kyoto in the mid-Heian period. It involves "rice-maiden" (sa-otome) dances to flutes, drums and sasara (a percussion instrument of two blocks of wood) It is performed (as binzasara) at the matsuri of the jinja in Tokyo on May 17th and at the Kumano Nachi Taisba, Wakayama on July 14th |
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| Dengyo Daishi |
The posthumous name of Saicho, an outstanding medieval Buddhist monk and founder of the Tendai sect in Japan, whose main monastic complex was founded at Enryakuji on Mt. Hiei outside Kyoto. He spent his early monastic training in seclusion on Mt. Hiei and in 804 travelled to China, returning in 805 with transmissions of esoteric Buddhism, meditation techniques, monastic rules and Tendai (Chinese: T'ien-T'ai, the name of a mountain lineage) doctrines. Tendai accepts from the standpoint of the Lotus Sutra (Hokekyo) a variety of different approaches to the religious life, according to temperament and preparedness. Saicho's ambition, realised only after his death in 822 was to set up a Mahayana ordination "platform" on Mt. Hiei. His monastery of Enryaku ji produced all the important Buddhist reformers of the period such as Nichiren, Dogen, Honen and Shinran. From the point of view of later Shinto, Saicho's belief in the equal potential for enlightenment of all beings could be seen to pave the way for the view that kami can be enlightened beings, and thus of the same rank as Buddhas. More concretely, Mt. Hiei housed in its temple-shrine (jingu-ji, ji-sha) complex the syncretic 'mountain king" (sanno) guardian deity worshipped in ichijitsu shinto and in thousands of Hie shrines all over Japan |
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| Denver Church Of Christ |
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| Department Of Righteous Craziness |
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| Destined For Christ |
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| Devil's Knights |
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| Devoted Apostles For World Nature |
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| Diocesan Youth Committee |
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| Diocese Of Winona |
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| Director Of Christian Outreach |
DCO |
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| Director Of Christian Outreach Association |
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| Disciple A Whole Nation |
DAWN |
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| Disciple Making Opportunity |
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| Disciples In Real Time |
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| Discipleship And Weekly Nurture |
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