Nara six schools (Kusha, Jōjitsu, Sanron, Hossō, Kegon, Ritsu)
A living tradition within Mahāyāna. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Nara six schools (Kusha, Jōjitsu, Sanron, Hossō, Kegon, Ritsu) is a living tradition within Mahāyāna. Also written Nanto rokushū.
Origin
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 lists all six for the Nara period (710–784): Kusha (on Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa), Jōjitsu (on Harivarman's Satyasiddhi), Sanron (on Nāgārjuna), Hossō (transmitted by Dōshō, on Dharmapāla's Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi), Kegon (on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra) and Ritsu (Vinaya, on Chinese traditions). No individual founding years. Grouped as one entry to avoid inflating the count with six near-identical thin nodes; Kegon and Hossō also appear under their Chinese parents.
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Citation
English
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John Shaqi. “Nara six schools (Kusha, Jōjitsu, Sanron, Hossō, Kegon, Ritsu).” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-nara-six-schools-kusha-jojitsu-sanron-hosso-kegon-ritsu.
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}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.