The religious and philosophical culture of early Heian

• Main Author: S. V. Kapranov
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion (UARR) 2001-12-01
• Series: Українське Pелігієзнавство
• Online Access: https://uars.info/index.php/uars/article/view/1211

Early Heyen (794 - 901) is interesting for religious scholars for at least two reasons. First, at this time in Japan there is an independent professional philosophy (Buddhist in nature). Second, at this time the formation of the first of three religious-cultural-sociopolitical syntheses, which highlights in the history of the religions of Japan Dzh.Kitagava - the synthesis of Ritsurio: "paradigmatic form of immanent theocracy", ends. The religious and philosophical culture of early Heyana is a complex, multi-layered phenomenon. Its basis was the linguistic conceptualization of the world of classical Japanese and, to some extent, classical Chinese, as well as mythological representations, inherited mostly from archaic times. On this basis, ideas developed from the continent in the previous period - Confucian, Buddhist, Taoist, who managed to get well here for three hundred years (from VI to VIII century.) Developed.