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epistemological, and ethical considerations, as in so-called Ise Shintō
and, more clearly, in Yoshida Shintō.
In this manner, systematic and sustained attempts to integrate “local
deities” into the Buddhist system produced an independent, and grad-
ually non-Buddhist, discourse on local cults that became increasingly
nativistic in character. This seems to be a common development in
regions in which tantrism played an important role, such as in India,
with the development of Hindu nativism; Tibet’s Bön tradition, and in
Japan, with the creation of Shintō as an independent religion.