page_title: Gongen
hierarchical_section_title: Gongen
caption_attribution_description: English: The Yomeimon Gate of Tosho-gu Shrine, Nikko, Japan. Photograph by Michael Reeve, 5 April 2004. Русский: Ворота Ёмэй-мон в святилище Никко Тосё-гу в Японии. Сфотографировал Майкл Рив 5 апреля 2004 года.
context_page_description: A gongen, literally "incarnation", was believed to be the manifestation of a buddha in the form of an indigenous kami, an entity who had come to guide the people to salvation, during the era of shinbutsu-shūgō in premodern Japan. The words gonge and kegen are synonyms for gongen. Gongen shinkō is the term for belief in the existence of gongen.
  The gongen concept is the cornerstone of the honji suijaku theory, according to which Buddhist deities choose to appear to the Japanese as native kami in order to save them, which is based on the Mahayana Buddhist notion of upaya, "expedient means".
context_section_description: A gongen (権現), literally "incarnation", was believed to be the manifestation of a buddha in the form of an indigenous kami, an entity who had come to guide the people to salvation, during the era of shinbutsu-shūgō in premodern Japan. The words gonge (権化) and kegen (化現) are synonyms for gongen. Gongen shinkō (権現信仰) is the term for belief in the existence of gongen.
  The gongen concept is the cornerstone of the honji suijaku theory, according to which Buddhist deities choose to appear to the Japanese as native kami in order to save them, which is based on the Mahayana Buddhist notion of upaya, "expedient means".
caption: Nikkō Tōshō-gū enshrines Tokugawa Ieyasu under the posthumous name of Tōshō Daigongen
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