Ji-shu explained

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.

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)^{[2] [3]}

The school was founded in 1270 by Ippen .^[1] In addition to practicing nembutsu,^[4] he was strongly influenced by the non-dualism within Zen . He even received Dharma transmission as a Zen master from Rōshi Kakushin.^{[5] [6]}

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,^[7] and keeping a register of the converted.

, a temple located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, and serves as the headquarters of the sect today.^{[8] [9]}

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. . 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,
• 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.
• 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,
• 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

External links

• Jodo Shu Research Institute
• Stewart, Harold, Ippen
• The Yugyo-ji temple / Head temple of the ji-shu sect
• 念佛金言录
• Shonin Ippen, E-den (Biographical stories vol7)
• The Ji Sect (時宗)
• Ji-Shu Main Temple website

• Ji-shu Sōhonzan Yugyō-ji web site
• Yugyō-ji Houmotsukan
• Yugyō-ji Keidai Zu (late Edo period)
• Kunishitei Bunkazai Database

Notes and References

1. Book: Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. . 2013 . . 9780691157863 . Buswell . Robert Jr . Robert Buswell Jr. . Princeton, NJ . 374 . Lopez . Donald S. Jr. . Donald S. Lopez Jr..
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20220121012259/https://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000326003 詳説 日本仏教13宗派がわかる本.
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20210522070837/https://kan-etsu-seien.com/publics/index/334/ 宗派について.
4. Moriarty, Elisabeth (1976). Nembutsu Odori, Asian Folklore Studies 35 (1), 7-16
5. Web site: Muryoko: Journal of Shin Buddhism . 2023-11-17 . www.nembutsu.info.
6. Web site: Ippen - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia . 2023-11-17 . tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com.
7. Dobbins . James C. . 1988 . Review: No Abode: The Record of Ippen. by Dennis Hirota . Monumenta Nipponica . 43 . 2 . 253 . 10.2307/2384755 . 2384755.
8. Shigeru Araki, Kichizō Yamamoto, "Sekkyō Bushi" (Heibon-sha, 1973)
9. Shunnō Ōhashi, "Ippen to Ji-shū Kyōdan" (Newton Press, 1978)