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| Author(s): |
Alexsânder Nakaôka Elias
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes |
| Defense date: | 2013-12-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Etienne Ghislain Samain;
Fabiana Uno;
Ronaldo Entler
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| Advisor: | Etienne Ghislain Samain |
| Abstract | |
This study makes use of images to reconstruct a visual documentation-verb, the memory of the Japanese Buddhist community Honmon Butsuryu-shu (HBS), having as main object of study the Cathedral Nikkyoji, located in the São Paulo city. We take into account here the fact that HBS is the oldest Buddhist strand in Brazil, coming to the country in 1908, under the hands of the priest Issui Ibaragui. We have at our disposal, therefore, more than a century of history and tradition, to be unveiled through images. The task at hand is to follow the routine of the Nikkyoji?s Cathedral priests, showing their various practices and activities, as well as the participation of the faithful in various cults (whether morning, posthumous or household), pass around a central ritual, which is the veneration and worship of an inscription (writing) sacred heart of this Buddhist tradition. This inscription, recited almost incessantly called Namumyouhourenguekyou, and consists of the Sutra (teaching transmitted by the Buddha Shakyamuni or Buddha historic) that represents the foundation of tripartite HBS, whilst the doctrine, prayer and sacred image of this current. To fulfill this mission, this research moves on land separate but interact with each other. The intention is to use the search field (concept coming Anthropology Classical) to produce a photographic documentation (sort of visual ethnography) of the main ritual of the oldest Buddhist tradition in Brazilian lands. Theology, Anthropology and Photography mingle here, for the sake of research (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/15268-3 - The use of the photographic image as a source of documentation and memory: a tour of the buddhist tradition of the Nikkyoji temple |
| Grantee: | Alexsânder Nakaóka Elias |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |