| It is not difficult to imagine that incarnations of Buddha, such as Nyorai (Tathagata), Bosatsu (Bodhisattva), and Myoo in newly coming Buddhism, were understood as the same entities as these gods. |
新たに伝来した仏教における如来・菩薩・明王などの仏も、これらの神といわば同列の存在と把握されたことは想像に難くない。 |