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Jodo Shinshu

Type Object Region Japan Time c. 1224

Jodo Shinshu is the Japanese Pure Land sect established by Shinran in the Kamakura period, teaching rebirth through Amida's other-power and nembutsu …

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  1. c. 1224–1235Kantō (around Hitachi) · KantōShinran compiled Pure Land sutras and treatises into the Kyōgyōshinshō, clarifying other-power of the vow and faith as the true cause of rebirth, giving Shinshu doctrine an independent formulation distinct from Hōnen's school.
  2. c. 1224–1263Kyoto · KyotoAfter gathering nembutsu disciples in Kantō, Shinran returned to Kyoto around the 1230s, sustaining local communities through letters and wasan hymns; at his death in 1263, Shinshu remained a loose network of disciples.
  3. c. 1272Otani, Kyoto · KyotoShinran's daughter Kakushinni and others built his mausoleum, which Kakunyō developed into the Hongwanji; Rennyo drove nationwide expansion, and in the early modern period it split into Nishi and Higashi Hongwanji, with the organization continuing to this day.

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