Ji-shū ( 時宗 , lit. time sect ) is one of four schools belonging to the Pure Land within Japanese Buddhism . The other three are Jōdo-shū ("the Pure Land"), Jōdo Shinshū ("the True Pure Land") and Yūzū Nembutsu . The school has around 500 temples and 3,400,000 followers. Ji-shū means "school of time" and the name is derived from its central teaching of reciting Nembutsu at regular intervals.
3-630: Shōkai (聖戒) (1261 - March 22, 1323) was a Buddhist monk of the Ji-shū school, disciple and close relative (younger brother or nephew) of Ippen , the first patriarch of Ji shū. He was also considered the founder of the Rokujō-ha (六条派) branch of the school. After Ippen's death in 1289, he founded the Kankikō-ji temple in 1291, and most importantly wrote the text of the Illustrated Biography of
6-764: The Itinerant Monk Ippen ( Ippen hijiri-e ). This is the oldest biography of the patriarch known today, so it has a very strong historiographical value. This Buddhism -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ji-shu In the general classification of Buddhism in Japan, the Jōdo-shū, the Jōdo Shinshu , the Ji-shu and the Yuzu Nembutsu shu are collectively classified into
9-499: The lineage of Jōdo Buddhism. (Jōdo kei, 浄土系) The school was founded in 1270 by Ippen . In addition to practicing nembutsu , he was strongly influenced by the non-dualism within Zen . He even received Dharma transmission as a Zen master from Rōshi Kakushin. Other practices associated with the Ji-shū include scheduled sessions of chanting (hence the name Ji-shū "Time sect"),
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