Multiple Ritual Transmission Styles in the 1912 Chintaku Reifu Corpus
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 21_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_VI_v2_9.md.
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Multiple Ritual Transmission Styles in the 1912 Chintaku Reifu Corpus
Section titled “Layer 1: Multiple Ritual Transmission Styles in the 1912 Chintaku Reifu Corpus”Source file:
21_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_VI_v2_9.md
The table of contents separately includes:
- transmitted ritual sequence;
- secret talisman practice;
- Confucian transmission of the practice;
- Japanese Shintō practice notes;
- Tang/Chinese-style house-pacification ritual;
- Japanese Buddhist syncretic practice;
- a separate “某家秘法,” secret method of a particular house/lineage.
Research significance
Section titled “Research significance”By 1912, Chintaku Reifu practice is not one stable religious identity. It exists in consciously differentiated:
- Daoist/Chinese;
- Confucian;
- Shintō;
- Buddhist-syncretic;
- hereditary/private-lineage forms.
Methodological warning
Section titled “Methodological warning”Do not project the 1912 syncretic package unchanged back onto the medieval Chinese canonical text.