Ji-shu

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Ji-shū (時宗, lit. time sect) 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"[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]

Hiroshige

References

  1. ^ a b Buswell, Robert Jr; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., eds. (2013). Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 374. ISBN 9780691157863.
  2. ^ a b Dobbins, James C. (1988). "Review: No Abode: The Record of Ippen. by Dennis Hirota". Monumenta Nipponica. 43 (2): 253. doi:10.2307/2384755. JSTOR 2384755.
  3. ^ 詳説 日本仏教13宗派がわかる本. Kodansha.
  4. ^ 宗派について. Kanetsu Seien.
  5. ^ Moriarty, Elisabeth (1976). Nembutsu Odori, Asian Folklore Studies 35 (1), 7-16
  6. ^ "Muryoko: Journal of Shin Buddhism". www.nembutsu.info. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  7. ^ "Ippen - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia". tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  8. ^ Shigeru Araki, Kichizō Yamamoto, "Sekkyō Bushi" (Heibon-sha, 1973)
  9. ^ Shunnō Ōhashi, "Ippen to Ji-shū Kyōdan" (Newton Press, 1978)

Bibliography

  • Foard, James Harlan (1977). Ippen Shônin and popular Buddhism in Kamakura Japan, Dissertation, Stanford University. OCLC
  • Foard, James Harlan(2006). The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development, Fremont, CA: Jain Publishing. ISBN 9780895810922. pp. 357–398
  • Griffiths, Caitilin J. (2011). Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan, Thesis, University of Toronto
  • Hirota, Dennis (1997). No Abode: The Record of Ippen, (Ryukoku-Ibs Studies in Buddhist Thought and Tradition), Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, ISBN 0824819977
  • Kaufman, Laura S. (1992). Nature, Courtly Imagery, and Sacred Meaning in the Ippen Hijiri-e. In James H. Sanford (ed.), Flowing Traces Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; pp. 47–75
  • Matsunaga, Daigan, Matsunaga, Alicia (1996), Foundation of Japanese buddhism, Vol. 2: The Mass Movement (Kamakura and Muromachi Periods), Los Angeles; Tokyo: Buddhist Books International, 1996. ISBN 0-914910-28-0
  • Thornton, S.A. (1999). Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyo-ha (1300-1700). Cornell East Asia Series no. 102, Ithaca: Cornell University, ISBN 1-885445-62-8
  • 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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