Ji-shū (時宗,lit. time sect) is one of four schools belonging to the Pure Land withinJapanese Buddhism . The other three areYūzū Nenbutsu,Jōdo-shū ("the Pure Land School") andJōdo Shinshū ("the True Pure Land School"). 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 recitingNembutsu at regular intervals.[2]
In the general classification of Buddhism in Japan, the Jōdo-shū, theJōdo Shinshu, the Ji-shu and theYuzu Nembutsu shu are collectively classified into the lineage of Jōdo Buddhism. (Jōdo kei, 浄土系)[3][4]
Other practices associated with the Ji-shū include scheduled sessions of chanting (hence the nameJi-shū "Time sect"), the handing out of slips of paper with thenembutsu written on them,[2] and keeping a register of the converted.
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