The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2246 page)

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Sh
j
.
Jap. for
H
nay
na
.
Sh
j
Daibosatsu
.
The great
bodhisattva
worshipped at the Sh
j
shrine at Kumano in Japan. He is an incarnation of
Amida
(
gongen
), who demonstrates (
sh
j
, ‘prove and bear witness’) the effectiveness of Amida's route to salvation.

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