East Asian Devotional Practices

Devotional practices belonging to East Asian religious traditions outside Buddhism proper, including Daoist talismanic and exorcistic ritual, Confucian ancestor veneration such as the Korean jesa ancestor-tablet rite and the formal Confucius-honoring ceremony of Shidian, and Shinto practices such as Norito recitation and the New Year shrine visit of Hatsumode. A practice this atlas's own live text ties specifically to Buddhism, even within an East Asian setting such as Japan, is grouped instead under Buddhist Devotional Practices.