Deadly Powerplay
Neil Oliver Podcast
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The Suga Clan and Buddhism
The head of the Suga finally got fed up with this and he had to work out how he was going to kind of you know subtract the Mononobae and the Nakatomi from the Imperial Church. What he came up with was that he would use religion as the till now got to be starting to think alreadyYou can hear resonances from other stories in other parts of the world, but religion, some powerful individual decides that he can use religion to affect the result that he wants. Buddhism so far had never made proper headway in Japan it had always come out second best Tishinto which is the traditional kind of animist religion of Japan.
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