Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

MC Happiness (Kansho Tagai) -- the rapping, tap-dancing Japanese Buddhist monk

The Buddhist religion has largely remained the same over the past few centuries. But in Japan, the religious preferences of the Japanese have always been a bit complicated. Because most of the citizens there have both Buddhist and Shinto shrines in their homes. They typically attend Buddhist temples for funerals and at year’s end, Shinto temples to welcome the new year, and Christian churches to tie the knot in organ-accompanied ceremonies — all without a thought to the contradictions.

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