| Covenant Metropolitan Community Church |
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| Create The Momentum |
CTM |
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| Creating Awareness For Everyone |
CAFE |
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| Creative Open Religious Exploration |
CORE |
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| Crisis Alternative Resources Education |
CARE |
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| Cross Of Fire |
COF |
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| Crossroads Christian Fellowship |
CCF |
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| Crown Financial Ministries |
CFM |
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| Cultivate Plant And Reap |
CPR |
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| Cultural Interchange Institute for Buddhists |
CIIB |
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| Cumberland Presbyterian |
CP |
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| Cummings Street Missionary Baptist Church |
CSMBC |
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| D'ni Restoration Council |
DRC |
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| Dai-gongen |
Avatar, incarnation, manifestation. Commonly dai-gongen "great gongen'. An incarnation or temporary manifestation of a "Buddha" or Formal designations of kami as gongen seem to have occurred mainly towards the end of the period, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Gongen were a focus of worship and devotion associated particularly with pre- Meiji yamabushi (mountain ascetics) but the yamabushi system was virtually destroyed and gongen given "Shinto" names as part of the bunri campaign. Examples of kami as gongen include dai-gongen and Akiba-gongen. Hachiman was regarded as a gongen of Amida Buddha and Tokugawa, Ieyasu as Tosho-dai-gongen (at Nikko) Other notable shrines designated as gongen were Atsuta, Yoshino and Kumano. See also |
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| Dai-guji |
A special rank of high priest at the ISE shrine whose role is to assist the imperial representative (saishu) in rites and administration of the shrine |
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| Daijosai |
'Great new food festival'. A ritual undertaken by the new emperor at the beginning of his reign. It takes place within a temporary sacred compound at the imperial palace called the daijogu and follows the ceremony of accession (senso) and enthronement (sokui rei) The daijosai takes place at the first occurrence of the Niinamesai (new rice) ritual after the enthronement. First fruits are offered by the new emperor to his imperial ancestors including Amaterasu. A meal including boiled and steamed rice and is shared with the kami. The rice and wine derive from different fields (regions) entitled yuki and suki. The ritual is held in the building called the yukiden before midnight and again in the sukiden before dawn. One interpretation holds that the ritual honours the kami and that the emperor ingests strength and protection through the food. Another view is that the ceremony, which involves objects such as a cloak and couch, is a rite of passage, a kind of incubation of the new emperor, during which he is infused with the soul of Amaterasu |
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| Daikoku |
A syncretic deity uniting the Indian god Mahakala with the kami O-kuni-nushi (great land-possessor, which can also be read dai-koku) and identified variously as the god of the kitchen, of wealth or fortune, and especially in Kyushu as kami of the ricefields and of agriculture. Saicho (Dengyo daishi) who may have introduced the worship of Daikoku to Japan, enshrined him at Mt. Hiei. He was linked in popular belief from the medieval period with the god In the Tokugawa period shusse ('success') daikoku was widely revered as the god of ambition and achievement. He is now generally represented as one of the shichifukujin, in which form he appears wearing a black hat, with a bag over his shoulder and holding a wish-fulfilling mallet |
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| Daikoku-ten |
A syncretic deity uniting the Indian god Mahakala with the kami O-kuni-nushi (great land-possessor, which can also be read dai-koku) and identified variously as the god of the kitchen, of wealth or fortune, and especially in Kyushu as kami of the ricefields and of agriculture. Saicho (Dengyo daishi) who may have introduced the worship of Daikoku to Japan, enshrined him at Mt. Hiei. He was linked in popular belief from the medieval period with the god In the Tokugawa period shusse ('success') daikoku was widely revered as the god of ambition and achievement. He is now generally represented as one of the shichifukujin, in which form he appears wearing a black hat, with a bag over his shoulder and holding a wish-fulfilling mallet |
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| Daikyo |
The 'Great teaching', one of the names for the new national religion promulgated by the early government, elements of which developed into modern Shinto. See senpu undo |
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| Daikyo-in |
The "Great Teaching Institute'. A government agency founded shortly after the restoration to spread the daikyo or 'Great Teaching' through the 'Great Promulgation Campaign" (Taikyo senpu undo) Although the institute was headed by Shinto administrators, was avowedly anti-Christian and accepted Buddhists only if they were prepared to teach and perform rites in a Shinto idiom, the institute was not at the time identified as Shinto but was conceived of as a trans-denominational institution, the basis of a state religion |
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