| By the middle of the Kamakura era there appeared a group of people who insisted in the Shinpon butsujaku theory that Buddhas were in turn the embodiment of Shinto gods and that Shinto gods were the masters that Buddhas followed. |
鎌倉時代中期になると、逆に仏が神の権化で、神が主で仏が従うと考える神本仏迹説も現れた。 |