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Terms for subject Religion (3849 entries)

Global Episcopal Mission	GEM
Glowing Years Ministry	GYM
Go Reach Our World	GROW
Go Study Torah	GST
Go'o jinja	A shrine situated in the Kyoto imperial palace dedicated to the faithful court retainer Wake-no-kiyomaro, who died in 799 (see Dokyo) A statue of a boar in the shrine precincts and the "wild boar procession' of banner-wielding 'faithful retainers' which is held at the shrine on April 4th recollect the legend that Kiyomaru lost the use of his legs in the service of empress Shotoku and had to escape in a palanquin. He was overtaken by enemies and only saved by the miraculous intervention of a herd of wild pigs. Kiyomaru was a devout Buddhist and his shrine used to be in the precincts of the Buddhist Shingo-ji temple. In 1851 shortly before the restoration the emperor Komei gave Wake-no-kiyomaro the title of shoichi-go-o-daimyojin 'great god protector of the emperor'. His shrine became the Go" o shrine in 1874 and was moved to its present separate site in 1886
Go-bunrei	Divided spirit, fraction of a spirit. A ceremony to divide and then install the bunrei of the kami of a main shrine is the normal means by which a branch shrine (bunsha) is established and empowered. The rei or mitama of the kami is not diminished in any way by this 'division'. Famous shrines may distribute thousands of bunrei over time, to establish new shrines or enhance the power of existing ones. The Iwashimizu-Hachimangu is reputed to have distributed 30,000 bunrei, the Usa Hachimangu 15,000 and the Suwa Taisha over 10,000. function in a similar way to bun-rei but are intended for the home which does not have the status of a recognised shrine
Go-hei	A wooden stick or staff with sacred paper strips (also termed gohei or nusa) attached. It is held by the priest to indicate the presence of the kami. See Heihaku. A kinpei is a "golden" gohei
Go-riyaku	Honorific form of
Go-shiki-ban	Coloured ribbons or large banners in five colours corresponding to the five directions (North; black or purple, East: blue-green, South; red, West; white, Centre; yellow) which are attached to objects or hung in or in front of the They are found particularly in shrines with strong Buddhist connections
Go-shintai	Kami-body, sacred substance. An object in which the inheres. A term best left untranslated, shintai is respectfully referred to as go-shintai or in "Japanese" reading mi-tama-shiro or A shintai may be a natural feature such as a rock, tree, mountain, (see Shintaizan) volcano crater, waterfall or well or it may be a manufactured object such as a mirror, sword, painting, gohei, comb, iron ball, specially shaped piece of metal or paper, or a "found" item such as a stone or pebble. Where the shintai is indoors it is normally kept in the In many cases the identity of the shintai is unknown or at least secret, since it is wrapped in more and more boxes and precious cloths over the years and never inspected. Kami may dwell in a shrine without any perceptible shintai. Buddhist statues, which is to say statues of etc. made before the period when kami and Buddhas were the same thing, were commonly used as shintai until the bunri of 1868. Despite the instruction to burn them, some (now identified as shinzo, kami-statues) have survived as shintai. There are also some post-Meiji statues of kami enshrined as shintai. When a new is established the mitama or of the kami is usually now carried in a mirror which is ritually installed as the new shintai
Gobusho	"The Five Shinto Scriptures'. The name given in the late seventeenth century by Deguchi, Nobuyoshi to a collection of thirteenth-century texts of Watarai (or Ise) Five scriptures purporting to be ancient secret works restricted to members of the Watarai family aged over sixty had been produced at that time to show that the Ise outer shrine (Watarai) lineage had a scriptural canon equivalent to that of the Confucians and Buddhists. The first volume "yamato-hime-seiki" for example explains that Great Japan is a divine land, that the safety of the land depends on the assistance of the kami, that the spiritual power of the kami is augmented when the state shows reverence, etc.. The texts were influential in the development of various views of Shinto as a way of life for ordinary people (see e.g. Yoshida, Kanetomo, Suiga shinto, Hayashi, Razan) The existence of this work stimulated no Azumamaro (1669—1736) to conduct investigations into the ancient Japanese classics; researches which led to the development of the movement
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God Always Provides	GAP
God Anointing Students	GAS
God Answering Students	GAS
God Answers Prayer	GAP
God Answers Prayers	GAP
God Fearing	GF
God First Always	GFA
God God God	GGG