j***y 发帖数: 2074 | 1 In recreating his spiritual pre-eminence, the authorities were quite
ruthless. Competing religions were attacked; Buddhism, which in the
Tokugawa era had been the state religion, was disestablished and
priests were defrocked, temple lands forfeited to the state, Buddhas
and ritual objects taken for scrap. Christianity, which had been
proscribed by the Tokugawa, had nevertheless survived in secret among
communities in an isolated area near Nagasaki. Over-estimating the
openness of the restoration |
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