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34 - Imperial Japan pt. 4 - New Buddhism vs. Gudō Uchiyama

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The Long Haired Preachers Come Out Every Night

Uchiyama advocated for land reform, which almost no one was allowed to discuss at this time whatsoever. He also criticised the outright selling of abbot ships as well. His interpretation of buddhism was obviously less manipulative and evil than his contemporaries but he was a massive political threat. These writings deeply, deeply disturbed the meji regime,. They immediately burned any copies that they could find of these writings. Other people were so excited by the writings that they would run around the streets distributing them. This caused a nation wide man hunt for the author, which is to say, uciama. All of this broke in 19 o nine, when police searched the rinsenj temple,

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