To the research of methodology of traditional musical culture in the aspect of the religious syncretism
The article is devoted to methodological problems of modern ethnomusicology which are connected with the research of demonstrations of the religious syncretism in sacral musical ritualism of Asian cultures in Buddhism space. The material is unexplored phenomena of musical syncretism in modern Japanese Shinto. The reconstruction of its sources in mystic rituals of Shugendo, Buddhism and Nestorianism shows the vector of millenary interaction of the world religions with autochthonic Eurasia cultures.