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• Jodo
  * [[Jodo-shu|Jôdo Shû]] ''Pure Land Buddhism'' * [[Jodo-shinshu|Jôdo Shinshû]] ''"True" Pure Land Buddhism''
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• Mt. Potalaka
  Mount Potalaka is a mythical place imagined as the [[Pure Land]] of the [[bodhisattva]] Avalokiteshvara (known in Japanese as [[Kannon]]). ...land somewhere to the south of India, by the [[Ming dynasty]] East Asian [[Buddhism]] associated the mythical Potalaka with Putuoshan, an island just off the c
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• Daochuo
  ...is considered the second patriarch of the [[Jodo-shu|Pure Land sect]] of [[Buddhism]] in China.
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• Nichiren Buddhism
  ...t, rather, represents a return to the teachings of [[Saicho|Saichô]]: that Buddhism should be the protector of the Japanese state and the Japanese people, and ...ling upon Amida to save them, a central practice for adherents of Nichiren Buddhism is to chant ''namu myôhô rengekyô'', declaring their faith in the Lotus
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• Amida
  ...se, worshipped as the chief deity of [[Jodo-shu|Jôdo-shû]], or "Pure Land" Buddhism. Widely worshipped in Japan, Amida is also the most-worshipped incarnation ...'s soul could be pulled by Amida, by those threads, directly into the Pure Land. [[Fujiwara no Michinaga]], who died at the Amida Hall at [[Hojo-ji|Hôjô-
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• 1175
  *[[Honen|Hônen]] establishes the [[Jodo-shu|Jôdo-shû]] (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism.
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• Shinran
  ...was the founder of ''[[Jodo shinshu|Jôdo shinshû]]'' Buddhism ("True Pure Land sect"). ...He then considered, or discovered, the notion that entrance into the Pure Land is not something earned through human effort, but is something granted, com
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• Honen
  Hônen is considered the founder of [[Pure Land Buddhism]] (''Jôdo-shû'') in Japan. ...ecause the spiritual energies had declined so much since the golden age of Buddhism, enlightenment was no longer attainable, and therefore meditation, celibacy
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• Shunjobo Chogen
  The [[Pure Land Buddhism|Jôdo-shû]] monk Shunjôbô Chôgen was a direct disciple of [[Honen|Hône ...'s Kasuga Ryûjin (Dragon God of Kasuga), or Myôe Shônin," ''Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report'', Asian Humanities Press (1987), 103.
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• Hoju-ji
  ...is a temple of the Nishiyama Zenrin branch of the [[Pure Land sect]] of [[Buddhism]], located in [[Fushimi]], [[Kyoto]].
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• Ryonin
  ...or all mankind. He called this the ''yûzû nenbutsu''. He thus traveled the land, seeking converts and collecting signatures of those who would recite the ' *“Amida, The Pure Land, and the Response of the Old Buddhism to the New,” in Wm. Theodore De Bary, Donald Keene, George Tanabe, and Pa
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• Myoe
  ...a period]] monk who opposed the radical ideas of [[Pure Land Buddhism|Pure Land]] founder [[Honen|Hônen]]. ...of practices were essential in order for one to earn passage into the Pure Land, i.e. to earn salvation. He advocated reciting a chant that incorporated de
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• Shojoke-in
  ...ally a training temple within the palace grounds, the name (roughly, "pure pure flower temple") derives from the idea of aspiring to sit on the Buddha's lo ...[[Honen|Hônen]] to take over and convert the temple to Jôdo-shû (Pure Land Buddhism). After being moved numerous times, the temple came to its current site in
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• 1224
  ...hinran]] founds the [[Jodo Shinshu|Jôdo Shinshû]] (True Pure Land) sect of Buddhism.
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• Chion-in
  Chion-in, in Kyoto, is the head temple of the [[Pure Land Sect]] of Buddhism. The main gate of the temple is the largest in the country of that particul
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• Kin Shrine
  ...en Shrine. Despite the ''[[shinbutsu bunri]]'' (dividing [[Shinto]] from [[Buddhism]]) policies of the [[Meiji government]], at Kin the two still remain linked
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• Japanese Buddhism in Hawaii
  ...Japanese Buddhist temples, are quite sparse in the mainland United States, Buddhism occupies a prominent position in the architectural/urban and religious land ...some kind of acceptance of the Christian God, in order to protect against Buddhism being opposed as a "foreign" religion. His suggestion was rejected, however
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• Dannohorin-ji
  Dannôhôrin-ji is a [[Jodo shu|Jôdo shû]] (Pure Land) Buddhist temple in [[Kyoto]] which claims to hold the oldest ''[[maneki ne The monk [[Taichu|Taichû]], after introducing Pure Land Buddhism into the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], returned to Kyoto in [[1611]]
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• Kin Kannon-ji
  ...en Shrine. Despite the ''[[shinbutsu bunri]]'' (dividing [[Shinto]] from [[Buddhism]]) policies of the [[Meiji government]], at Kin the two still remain linked
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• Buddhism
  ...oncile Buddhist belief and practice with those of Confucianism and Taoism. Buddhism began to spread in earnest in China in the third century, taking hold in el ...s only one, took root relatively easily in China, as compared to Theravada Buddhism, which focused more strongly on the historical Buddha and his teachings. Bu
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