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Yamazaki Ben'nei
Yamazaki Ben'nei (, February 20, 1859 – December 4, 1920) was a Japanese Buddhist priest of the Jodo sect. He was involved in the Komyoshugi movement, a social movement of the Jodo sect, from the late Meiji period to the Taisho period. Biography He was born in 1858 to a farming family of devout Jodo sect followers in Tega Village (present-day Washinoya area, Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture) on the banks of Lake Tega in Soma County, Shimōsa Province. While studying Buddhist painting at a nearby Shingon sect temple, at the age of 12, he contemplated the Amida Triad in the setting sun and wished to become a monk. In November 1879, he became a monk under Daiko Otani of Buppozan Ichijoin Tozenji Temple. He moved to Tokyo in 1881 and studied at Zojoji Temple and Kisshō-ji (now Komazawa University), and practiced nembutsu at Mount Tsukuba in 1882. He moved to Narashino in 1887 and promoted the construction of Reijusan Genpukuin Zenkoji Temple and the founding of the main Jodo s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jōdo-shū
Jōdo-shū (浄土宗, "The Pure Land School"), is a Japanese branch of Pure Land Buddhism derived from the teachings of the Kamakura era monk Hōnen (1133–1212). The school is traditionally considered as having been established in 1175 and is the most widely practiced branch of Buddhism in Japan, along with Jōdo Shinshū. There are various branches of Jōdo-shū, which the largest and most influential ones being Chinzei-ha and Seizan-ha. Jōdo-shū Buddhism focuses exclusively on devotion to Amitābha Buddha (Amida Nyorai), and its practice is focused on the Nembutsu (recitation of Amitābha’s name). As in other forms of Pure Land Buddhism, adherents believe that the faithful recitation of the phrase " Namu Amida Butsu" (Homage to Amida Buddha) results in birth in the pure land of Sukhavati. The Jōdo-shū as an independent sect is not to be confused with the term "Jōdo Tradition" (Jōdo-kei, 浄土系) which is used as a classification for "Japanese Pure Land Buddhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taisho University
is a private university in Sugamo, Nishi-sugamo, Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. The university was founded in the last year of the Taishō era, Taishō period (1926) by merging the three Buddhist colleges. The three were: * the Tendai-shū College (, ''Tendai-shū daigaku', founded in 1885), * the Buzan College (, ''Buzan daigaku'', founded in 1887 and funded by Shingon-shu Buzan-ha, Shingon-shū Buzan-ha), and * the Religious College (, ''Shūkyō daigaku'', founded in 1887 and funded by Jōdo-shū). Its school precepts are based on the Tendai school of Buddhism. The concept for the university began when five doctors—Junjiro Takakusu, Masaharu Anesaki, Eun Maeda, Senshō Murakami and Masataro Sawayanagi—who were leaders of Buddhist society in Japan, proposed creating a Buddhist university union. Undergraduate school The undergraduate school consists of the Faculty of Regional Development, Faculty of Psychology and Sociology, Faculty of Human Studies, Faculty of Literature, Faculty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
