Shingaku
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thumb|Shingaku made use of specific dances to illustrate its worldview. Shingaku (心学, lit. "heart learning") or Sekimon-shingaku (石門心学) is a Japanese religious movement, founded by Ishida Baigan and further developed by Teshima Toan, which was especially influential during the Tokugawa period. Shingaku has been characterized as coming from the Neo-Confucian tradition, integrating principles from Zen Buddhism and Shinto (Chang 2010). It has been speculated that Shingaku was one of the cultural foundations for Japan's industrialization. (Sawada, 1993; Bellah, 1957)
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- せきもんしんがく
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thumb|Shingaku made use of specific dances to illustrate its worldview. Shingaku (心学, lit. "heart learning") or Sekimon-shingaku (石門心学) is a Japanese religious movement, founded by Ishida Baigan and further developed by Teshima Toan, which was especially influential during the Tokugawa period. Shingaku has been characterized as coming from the Neo-Confucian tradition, integrating principles from Zen Buddhism and Shinto (Chang 2010). It has been speculated that Shingaku was one of the cultural foundations for Japan's industrialization. (Sawada, 1993; Bellah, 1957)
==References== Kun-Chiang Chang. "Comparison between the Sekimon Shingaku 石門心學 and Yomeigaku 陽明學 in Japan" 清華學報 40.4 (2010) Janine Anderson Sawada,Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. . from speech in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Founding of Shingaku Robert N. Bellah, Tokugawa Religion: The Values of Pre-Industrial Japan, 1957