Ji-shu

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Ji-shū ( Japanese : 時宗) 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 massing the Nembutsu at any time, not just at certain intervals.

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"), the handing out of slips of paper with the nembutsu written on them, and keeping a register of the converted.

Literature

• Dennis Hirota, No Abode: The Record of Ippen , University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 1997 ISBN 978-0-8248-1997-2
• Daigan Lee Matsunaga and Alicia Orloff Matsunaga, Foundation of Japanese Buddhism. Vol. II: The Mass Movement (Kamakura & Muromachi Periods) , Buddhist Books International, Los Angeles & Tōkyō, 1976 ISBN 978-0-9149-1027-5

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