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This document summarizes a scholarly article about religion and politics in Heian period Japan (794-1185). It discusses how religion was deeply intertwined with politics and the exercise of power during this time. Religious institutions like temples and shrines accumulated land and wealth, giving them economic and political influence comparable to the imperial state. The document also examines the work of historian Kuroda Toshio, who argued that a syncretic system of esoteric and exoteric Buddhism functione

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Felipe Novo

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