Gongen

A Gongen (権現) is a kind of kami or shinto deity. A gongen has a Buddhist part and a Shinto part.[1][2]

They were banned during the Meiji Restoration, so all Gongen shrines had to remove their Buddhist parts.[3]

Examples

References

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia of Shinto, Gongen accessed on October 5, 2008
  2. ↑ Tamura, Yoshirō; Hunter, Jeffrey (2000). Japanese Buddhism: a cultural history. Tokyo: Kosei publ. ISBN 978-4-333-01684-6.
  3. ↑ "Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Folk Religion : Gongen shinkō". eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-12-14. {{cite web}}: |archive-url= requires |archive-date= (help)
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