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Pure Land / Jodo
浄土 means “Pure Land.”
This term, “Pure Land” is often associated with the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha, also known as the “Buddhist paradise.”
浄土 can also be used as an abbreviation for “Pure Land Buddhism.”
You may see this romanized as Jodo, Joudo, or Jōdo. Some also combine Pure Land into Pureland in English.
This can also be a Japanese surname with the same Jodo or Joudo pronunciation.
See Also: Shin Buddhism
Pure Land / Jodo
Also a sect of Buddhism
淨土 literally means “pure land” or “clean earth.”
淨土 is also the abbreviated title of a Buddhist sect that involves faith in the rebirth of Buddha Amitabha (Amitābha) in the Western Heaven. Sometimes this sect is translated as “Paradise of the West.” Other titles of this school of Buddhism include Amidism or Elysium.
See Also: Nirvana | Shin Buddhism
Pure Land Buddhism / Jodo Buddhism
浄土宗 is the title of Japanese “Pure Land Buddhism.” This form is also romanized/known as “Jodo Shu” (jōdo shū).
Also known as Amidism for the fact that this is a branch of Mahayana (Mahāyāna) Buddhism which focuses on Amitabha (Amitābha) Buddha. This form of Buddhism, along with Chinese characters, came to Japan via China in the 5th century, according to most historians.
Notes:
Pure Land Buddhism is also known as 
(jōdo bukkyō).
Some will just express it with just (Pure Land).
See Also: Shin Buddhism
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
浄土 see styles |
joudo / jodo じょうど |
More info & calligraphy: Pure Land / Jodo |
淨土 净土 see styles |
jìng tǔ jing4 tu3 ching t`u ching tu jōdo |
More info & calligraphy: Pure Land / JodoSukhāvatī. The Pure Land, or Paradise of the West, presided over by Amitābha. Other Buddhas have their Pure Lands; seventeen other kinds of pure land are also described, all of them of moral or spiritual conditions of development, e.g. the pure land of patience, zeal, wisdom, etc. |
浄土宗 see styles |
joudoshuu / jodoshu じょうどしゅう |
More info & calligraphy: Pure Land Buddhism / Jodo Buddhism |
淨土宗 净土宗 see styles |
jìng tǔ zōng jing4 tu3 zong1 ching t`u tsung ching tu tsung Jōdo Shū |
More info & calligraphy: Pure Land Buddhism / Jodo BuddhismThe Pure-land sect, whose chief tenet is salvation by faith in Amitābha; it is the popular cult in China, also in Japan, where it is the Jōdo sect; it is also called 蓮宗(蓮花宗) the Lotus sect. Established by Hui-yuan 慧遠 of the Chin dynasty (317— 419), it claims P'u-hsien 普賢 Samantabhadra as founder. Its seven chief textbooks are 無量淸淨平等覺經; 大阿彌陀經; 無量壽經; 觀無量壽經; 阿彌陀經; 稱讚淨土佛攝受經; and 鼓音聲三陀羅尼經. The淨土眞宗 is the Jōdo-Shin, or Shin sect of Japan. |
浄土真宗 see styles |
joudoshinshuu / jodoshinshu じょうどしんしゅう |
More info & calligraphy: Shin Buddhism |
一向 see styles |
yī xiàng yi1 xiang4 i hsiang ikkou / ikko いっこう |
a period of time in the recent past; (indicating a period of time up to the present) all along; the whole time (adverb) (1) (See 一向に・1) completely; absolutely; totally; (adverb) (2) (in a negative sentence) (not) at all; (not) a bit; (not) in the least; (adverb) (3) earnestly; intently; determinedly; (4) (abbreviation) (See 一向宗) Jōdo Shinshū; (surname) Hitomukai One direction, each direction; with single mind, the mind fixed in one direction undistracted; e.g. 一向淸淨無有女人 (The land of that Buddha is) everywhere pure; no women are there. |
一念 see styles |
yī niàn yi1 nian4 i nien ichinen いちねん |
(1) determined purpose; (2) {Buddh} an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought); (3) {Buddh} (See 浄土宗) a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu); (personal name) Kazune A kṣaṇa, or thought; a concentration of mind; a moment; the time of a thought, of which there are varying measurements from 60 kṣaṇa upwards; the Fan-yi-ming-yi makes it one kṣaṇa. A reading. A repetition (especially of Amitābha's name). The Pure-land sect identify the thought of Buddha with Amitābha's vow, hence it is an assurance of salvation. |
九宗 see styles |
jiǔ zōng jiu3 zong1 chiu tsung ku shū |
The eight sects 八宗 (q.v.) plus the 禪宗 Chan or Zen, or the Pure-land or Jōdo sect. |
助業 助业 see styles |
zhù yè zhu4 ye4 chu yeh jogou / jogo じょごう |
{Buddh} (See 浄土宗) auxiliary actions (in Jodo: recitation, observation, worship, praise and offering) Auxiliary karma, i.e. deeds or works, e.g. reciting the sutras about the Pure Land, worship, praise, and offering, as additional to direct karma 正業, i.e. faith in Amitābha, expressed by constant thought of him and calling on his name. |
十宗 see styles |
shí zōng shi2 zong1 shih tsung jūshū |
The ten schools of Chinese Buddhism: I. The (1) 律宗 Vinaya-discipline, or 南山|； (2) 倶舍 Kośa, Abhidharma, or Reality (Sarvāstivādin) 有宗； (3) 成實宗 Satyasiddhi sect founded on this śāstra by Harivarman; (4) 三論宗 Mādhyamika or 性空宗； (5) 法華宗 Lotus, "Law-flower" or Tiantai 天台宗； (6) 華嚴Huayan or法性 or賢首宗； ( 7) 法相宗 Dharmalakṣana or 慈恩宗 founded on the唯識論 (8) 心宗 Ch'an or Zen, mind-only or intuitive, v. 禪宗 ; (9) 眞言宗 (Jap. Shingon) or esoteric 密宗 ; (10) 蓮宗 Amitābha-lotus or Pure Land (Jap. Jōdo) 淨士宗. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 9th are found in Japan rather than in China, where they have ceased to be of importance. II. The Hua-yen has also ten divisions into ten schools of thought: (1) 我法倶有 the reality of self (or soul) and things, e.g. mind and matter; (2) 法有我無 the reality of things but not of soul; (3) 法無去來 things have neither creation nor destruction; (4) 現通假實 present things are both apparent and real; (5) 俗妄眞實 common or phenomenal ideas are wrong, fundamental reality is the only truth; (6) things are merely names; (7) all things are unreal 空; (8) the bhūtatathatā is not unreal; (9) phenomena and their perception are to be got rid of; (10) the perfect, all-inclusive, and complete teaching of the One Vehicle. III. There are two old Japanese divisions: 大乘律宗, 倶舎宗 , 成實 宗 , 法和宗 , 三論宗 , 天台宗 , 華嚴宗 , 眞言宗 , 小乘律宗 , and 淨土宗 ; the second list adds 禪宗 and omits 大乘律宗. They are the Ritsu, Kusha, Jōjitsu, Hossō, Sanron, Tendai, Kegon, Shingon, (Hīnayāna) Ritsu, and Jōdo; the addition being Zen. |
宗派 see styles |
zōng pài zong1 pai4 tsung p`ai tsung pai shuuha / shuha しゅうは |
sect (1) sect; denomination; (2) school (e.g. of poetry) Sects (of Buddhism). In India, according to Chinese accounts, the two schools of Hīnayāna became divided into twentysects. Mahāyāna had two main schools, the Mādhyamika, ascribed to Nāgārjunaand Āryadeva about the second century A. D., and the Yogācārya, ascribed toAsaṅga and Vasubandhu in the fourth century A. D. In China thirteen sectswere founded: (1) 倶舍宗 Abhidharma or Kośa sect, representing Hīnayāna,based upon the Abhidharma-kosa-śāstra or 倶舍論. (2) 成實宗 Satyasiddhi sect, based on the 成實論 Satyasiddhi-śāstra,tr. by Kumārajīva; no sect corresponds to it in India; in China and Japan itbecame incorporated in the 三論宗. (3) 律宗 Vinaya or Discipline sect, basedon 十誦律, 四分律, 僧祗律, etc. (4) 三論宗 The three śāstra sect, based on theMādhyamika-śāstra 中觀論 of Nāgārjuna, theSata-śāstra 百論 of Āryadeva, and theDvādasa-nikāya-śāstra 十二門論 of Nāgārjuna; this schooldates back to the translation of the three śāstras by Kumārajīva in A. D. 409. (5) 涅槃宗 Nirvāṇasect, based upon the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra 涅槃經 tr. byDharmaraksa in 423; later incorporated in Tiantai, with which it had much incommon. (6) 地論宗 Daśabhūmikā sect, based on Vasubandhu's work on the tenstages of the bodhisattva's path to Buddhahood, tr. by Bodhiruci 508,absorbed by the Avataṃsaka school, infra. (7) 淨土宗 Pure-land or Sukhāvatīsect, founded in China by Bodhiruci; its doctrine was salvation throughfaith in Amitābha into the Western Paradise. (8) 禪宗 dhyāna, meditative or intuitional sect, attributed toBodhidharma about A. D. 527, but it existed before he came to China. (9) 攝論宗, based upon the 攝大乘論 Mahāyāna-saṃparigraha-śāstra byAsaṅga, tr. by Paramārtha in 563, subsequently absorbed by the Avataṃsakasect. (10) 天台宗 Tiantai, based on the 法華經 SaddharmapuṇḍarīkaSūtra, or the Lotus of the Good Law; it is aconsummation of the Mādhyamika tradition. (11) 華嚴宗 Avataṃsaka sect, basedon the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, or Gandha-vyūha 華嚴經 tr. in 418. (12) 法相宗 Dharmalakṣaṇa sect, established after thereturn of Xuanzang from India and his trans. of the important Yogācāryaworks. (13) 眞言宗 Mantra sect, A. D. 716. In Japan twelve sects are named:Sanron, Hossō, Kegon, Kusha, Jōjitsu, Ritsu, Tendai, Shingon; these areknown as the ancient sects, the two last being styled mediaeval; therefollow the Zen and Jōdo; the remaining two are Shin and Nichiren; at presentthere are the Hossō, Kegon, Tendai, Shingon, Zen, Jōdo, Shin, and Nichirensects. |
一向宗 see styles |
yī xiàng zōng yi1 xiang4 zong1 i hsiang tsung ikkoushuu / ikkoshu いっこうしゅう |
(See 浄土真宗) Ikkō sect (of Buddhism); Jōdo Shinshū; True Pure Land School The 眞宗 Shin or Pure-land Shin Sect founded by Shinran, in Japan, whose chief tenet is unwavering reflection on Amida (by repeating his name). |
不來迎 不来迎 see styles |
bù lái yíng bu4 lai2 ying2 pu lai ying fu raigō |
Without being called he comes to welcome; the Pure-land sect believes that Amitābha himself comes to welcome departing souls of his followers on their calling upon him, but the 淨土眞宗 (Jōdo Shin-shu sect) teaches that belief in him at any time ensures rebirth in the Pure Land, independently of calling on him at death. |
淨土因 see styles |
jìng tǔ yīn jing4 tu3 yin1 ching t`u yin ching tu yin jōdo in |
causes of the pure land |
淨土教 see styles |
jìng tǔ jiào jing4 tu3 jiao4 ching t`u chiao ching tu chiao jōdo kyō |
Pure Land teaching |
淨土論 淨土论 see styles |
jìng tǔ lùn jing4 tu3 lun4 ching t`u lun ching tu lun Jōdo ron |
Treatise on the Pure Land |
淨土門 淨土门 see styles |
jìng tǔ mén jing4 tu3 men2 ching t`u men ching tu men jōdo mon |
Pure Land teaching |
開教師 see styles |
kaikyoushi / kaikyoshi かいきょうし |
Buddhist missionary, esp. in Jodo, Pure Land, etc. sects; Buddhist minister (in the West) |
阿彌陀 阿弥陀 see styles |
ā mí tuó a1 mi2 tuo2 a mi t`o a mi to Amida あみだ |
(out-dated kanji) (1) (Buddhist term) Amitabha (Buddha); Amida; (2) (kana only) (abbreviation) ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner; (3) (kana only) (abbreviation) wearing a hat pushed back on one's head (阿彌) amita, boundless, infinite; tr. by 無量 immeasurable. The Buddha of infinite qualities, known as 阿彌陀婆 (or 阿彌陀佛) Amitābha, tr. 無量光 boundless light; 阿彌陀廋斯Amitāyus, tr. 無量壽 boundless age, or life; and among the esoteric sects Amṛta 甘露 (甘露王) sweet-dew (king). An imaginary being unknown to ancient Buddhism, possibly of Persian or Iranian origin, who has eclipsed the historical Buddha in becoming the most popular divinity in the Mahāyāna pantheon. His name indicates an idealization rather than an historic personality, the idea of eternal light and life. The origin and date of the concept are unknown, but he has always been associated with the west, where in his Paradise, Suikhāvatī, the Western Pure Land, he receives to unbounded happiness all who call upon his name (cf. the Pure Lands 淨土 of Maitreya and Akṣobhya). This is consequent on his forty-eight vows, especially the eighteenth, in which he vows to refuse Buddhahood until he has saved all living beings to his Paradise, except those who had committed the five unpardonable sins, or were guilty of blasphemy against the Faith. While his Paradise is theoretically only a stage on the way to rebirth in the final joys of nirvana, it is popularly considered as the final resting-place of those who cry na-mo a-mi-to-fo, or blessed be, or adoration to, Amita Buddha. The 淨土 Pure-land (Jap. Jōdo) sect is especially devoted to this cult, which arises chiefly out of the Sukhāvatīvyūha, but Amita is referred to in many other texts and recognized, with differing interpretations and emphasis, by the other sects. Eitel attributes the first preaching of the dogma to 'a priest from Tokhara' in A. D.147, and says that Faxian and Xuanzang make no mention of the cult. But the Chinese pilgrim 慧日Huiri says he found it prevalent in India 702-719. The first translation of the Amitāyus Sutra, circa A.D. 223-253, had disappeared when the Kaiyuan catalogue was compiled A.D. 730. The eighteenth vow occurs in the tr. by Dharmarakṣa A.D. 308. With Amita is closely associated Avalokiteśvara, who is also considered as his incarnation, and appears crowned with, or bearing the image of Amita. In the trinity of Amita, Avalokiteśvara appears on his left and Mahāsthāmaprāpta on his right. Another group, of five, includes Kṣitigarbha and Nāgārjuna, the latter counted as the second patriarch of the Pure Land sect. One who calls on the name of Amitābha is styled 阿彌陀聖 a saint of Amitābha. Amitābha is one of the Five 'dhyāni buddhas' 五佛, q.v. He has many titles, amongst which are the following twelve relating to him as Buddha of light, also his title of eternal life: 無量光佛Buddha of boundless light; 無邊光佛 Buddha of unlimited light; 無礙光佛 Buddha of irresistible light; 無對光佛 Buddha of incomparable light; 燄王光佛 Buddha of yama or flame-king light; 淸淨光佛 Buddha of pure light; 歡喜光佛 Buddha of joyous light; 智慧光佛 Buddha of wisdom light; 不斷光佛 Buddha of unending light; 難思光佛 Buddha of inconceivable light; 無稱光佛Buddha of indescribable light; 超日月光佛 Buddha of light surpassing that of sun and moon; 無量壽 Buddha of boundless age. As buddha he has, of course, all the attributes of a buddha, including the trikāya, or 法報化身, about which in re Amita there are differences of opinion in the various schools. His esoteric germ-letter is hrīḥ, and he has specific manual-signs. Cf. 阿彌陀經, of which with commentaries there are numerous editions. |
一佛淨土 一佛净土 see styles |
yī fó jìng tǔ yi1 fo2 jing4 tu3 i fo ching t`u i fo ching tu ichi butsu jōdo |
A Buddha's Pure Land, especially that of Amitābha. |
九品淨土 九品净土 see styles |
jiǔ pǐn jìng tǔ jiu3 pin3 jing4 tu3 chiu p`in ching t`u chiu pin ching tu kuhon jōdo |
also 九品淨刹 , 九品安養, 九品蓮臺, 九品往生 The nine grades, or rewards, of the Pure Land, corresponding to the nine grades of development in the previous life, upon which depends, in the next life, one's distance from Amitābha, the consequent aeons that are needed to approach him, and whether one's lotus will open early or late. |
卽相卽心 see styles |
jí xiàng jí xīn ji2 xiang4 ji2 xin1 chi hsiang chi hsin sokusō sokushin |
Both form and mind are identical, e.g. the Pure Land as a place is identical with the Pure Land in the mind or heart—a doctrine of the Pure Land or Jōdo sect. |
安養淨土 安养淨土 see styles |
ān yǎng jìng tǔ an1 yang3 jing4 tu3 an yang ching t`u an yang ching tu annyō jōdo |
pure land of paradise |
密嚴淨土 密严淨土 see styles |
mì yán jìng tǔ mi4 yan2 jing4 tu3 mi yen ching t`u mi yen ching tu mitsugon jōdo |
Pure Land of Mysterious Adornment |
往生淨土 see styles |
wǎng shēng jìng tǔ wang3 sheng1 jing4 tu3 wang sheng ching t`u wang sheng ching tu ōjō jōdo |
rebirth in the pure land |
有漏淨土 有漏净土 see styles |
yǒu lòu jìng tǔ you3 lou4 jing4 tu3 yu lou ching t`u yu lou ching tu uro jōdo |
A purifying stage which, for certain types, precedes entry into the Pure Land. |
極樂淨土 极乐淨土 see styles |
jí lè jìng tǔ ji2 le4 jing4 tu3 chi le ching t`u chi le ching tu gokuraku jōdo |
pure land of ultimate bliss |
欣求淨土 see styles |
xīn qiú jìng tǔ xin1 qiu2 jing4 tu3 hsin ch`iu ching t`u hsin chiu ching tu kongu jōdo |
to aspire to rebirth in the Pure Land |
淨土往生 see styles |
jìng tǔ wǎng shēng jing4 tu3 wang3 sheng1 ching t`u wang sheng ching tu wang sheng jōdo ōjō |
rebirth in the Pure Land |
淨土文類 淨土文类 see styles |
jìng tǔ wén lèi jing4 tu3 wen2 lei4 ching t`u wen lei ching tu wen lei Jōdo monrui |
Collected Pure Land Passages |
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Pure Land Jodo | 浄土 | jou do / joudo / jo do | jìng tǔ / jing4 tu3 / jing tu / jingtu | ching t`u / chingtu / ching tu |
| Pure Land Jodo | 淨土 净土 | jou do / joudo / jo do | jìng tǔ / jing4 tu3 / jing tu / jingtu | ching t`u / chingtu / ching tu |
| Pure Land Buddhism Jodo Buddhism | 淨土宗 浄土宗 | jou do shuu joudoshuu jo do shu | jìng tǔ zōng jing4 tu3 zong1 jing tu zong jingtuzong | ching t`u tsung chingtutsung ching tu tsung |
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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