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Honmon Butsuryū-shū

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The Honmon Butsuryū-shū (HBS) is a branch of Nichiren Buddhism founded by Seifu Nagamatsu (1817–1890) in 1857 as a dissident of the Buddhist group Honmon Hokke. As far as the history of Buddhism in Latin America is concerned, Honmon Butsuryū-shū is an important point of reference, mainly because of the close relation to the history of Japanese immigration in Brazil. Large-scale Japanese immigration started in 1908 with the arrival of the 791 immigrants at the port of Santos. Watanabe (2008) informs us that although the propagation of Japanese religion was prohibited by the joint agreement made between the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Brazilian government (allowing only the migration of Catholic missionaries, in order to avoid anti-Japanese sentiment), individuals took their personal religious beliefs with them. But Honmon Butsuryū-shū did contrive to send one missionary to Brazil in the person of Tomojiro Ibaragi, born in Kyoto in 1886 and was among the...

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  • Shoji R (2004) The nativization of East Asian Buddhism in Brazil. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hannover, Germany

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  • Watanabe M (2008) The development of Japanese new religions in Brazil and their propagation in a foreign culture. Jpn J Relig Stud 35(1):115–144

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Religião, Mackenzie University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Suzana Ramos Coutinho

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Religião, Pontifical University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Frank Usarski & Rafael Shoji

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  1. Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work and Criminal Justice, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Henri Gooren

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Coutinho, S.R., Usarski, F., Shoji, R. (2019). Honmon Butsuryū-shū. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Religions of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4_113

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