Ji-shū | |
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時宗 | |
![]() Shōjōkō-ji, by Hiroshige | |
Classification | Pure Land Buddhism |
Headquarters | Shōjōkō-ji |
Founder | Ippen |
Origin | 1270 |
Separated from | Seizan Jōdo-shū |
Ji-shū (時宗, lit. time sect) is one of four schools belonging to the Pure Land within Japanese Buddhism . The other three are Yūzū Nenbutsu, Jōdo-shū ("the Pure Land School") and Jōdo Shinshū ("the True Pure Land School"). The school has around 500 temples and 3,400,000 followers. Ji-shū means "school of time" [1] and the name is derived from its central teaching of reciting Nembutsu at regular intervals. [2]
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 the lineage of Jōdo Buddhism. (Jōdo kei, 浄土系) [3] [4]
The school was founded in 1270 by Ippen . [1] In addition to practicing nembutsu, [5] he was strongly influenced by the non-dualism within Zen . He even received Dharma transmission as a Zen master from Rōshi Kakushin. [6] [7]
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, [2] and keeping a register of the converted.
Shōjōkō-ji (清浄光寺), a temple located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, and serves as the headquarters of the sect today. [8] [9]
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