A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE WISDOM
Four characters. A world of meaning.
Today’s discovery
廃仏毀釈
はいぶつきしゃく
MEANING & INTERPRETATION
anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era; movement to reject Buddhism and destroy Buddhist temples, statues, sutra scrolls, etc. in conjunction with the Decree to Abolish Buddhism issued by the new Meiji government
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