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Jodo shinshu  Term Image (Jodo shinshu) Script Image
(Language:  Japanese)
Alternate Spellings:
Short Description: "true pure land school"; a sect of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism founded by Shinran
Long Description: (A) Literally "The True Teaching (sect) of the Pure Land"; generally accepted as founded by Shinran, who was a disciple of Honen. In contrast to Honen’s other disciples, Shinran stressed the centrality of true entrusting, or faith, as the fundamental basis of birth in the Pure Land and Enlightenment, and not the merit of practices directed to that end. (B) "true pure land school"; a sect of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism founded by Shinran, based on faith in the power of the Buddha Amida and characterized by use of the nembutsu.
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Source(s): (A) Living in Amida’s Universal Vow: Essays in Shin Buddhism, by Alfred Bloom . (B) The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger.
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Provided By: Dictionary of Spiritual Terms