Abstract
In his book entitled Buddhism and Buddhists in Japan, Robert Cornell Armstrong made the following comment about Japanese Buddhist priests in the 1920s:
The statement is often made, and with good reason, that the great majority of modern Buddhist priests, who have inherited their temples and to whom their service represents a means of livelihood, do not really believe in their own religion. (Armstrong 1927, pp. 22–23)
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The numbers of Jōdoshin-shū Honganji-ha’s temples in Tokyo Prefecture and within the greater Tokyo area were counted at the Tsukiji Honganji’s website: http://www.kaikyou.net/temples/
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Horii, M. (2018). Life Stories and Identities of Nichiren-shū Priests. In: The Category of ‘Religion’ in Contemporary Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73570-2_7
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