Japan Times: “It’s about elevating a sense of helplessness by having them go through a dark tunnel, only to reveal to them that there is the saving grace of the Buddha or bodhisattva waiting for them in the depth of that darkness,” says Eric Haruki Swanson, an assistant professor at the department of theology at Loyola Marymount University in California and an expert on Japanese religions.
Source: Japan Times
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