Jōdo Shinshū
A living tradition within Pure Land. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Jōdo Shinshū is a living tradition within Pure Land. Also written True Pure Land school, Shin Buddhism.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Shinran (1173–1262/1263). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Araki gives Shinran's dates as 1173–1263; other Encyclopedia of Religion material gives 1173–1262. Both are reported; no founding year is given. The school's later division into Honganji branches (Nishi and Higashi Honganji) is well known but was NOT documented in any source retrieved in this pass and is therefore not asserted here.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Jōdo Shinshū.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-jodo-shinshu.
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title = {Jōdo Shinshū},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.