Ikkō-shū
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, "single-minded school," was a sect of Japanese Pure Land Buddhists whose history remains obscure.
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- Overview
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- References
- Further reading
, "single-minded school," was a sect of Japanese Pure Land Buddhists whose history remains obscure.
== Overview == Ikkō-shū was a sect founded by Ikkō Shunjō (1239–87) in the fifteenth century. He was a disciple of Ryōchū of the Chinzei branch of Jōdo-shū. However, his methods were similar to Ippen's and relied on itinerant wandering and the dancing nembutsu. As such, his sect was often associated with Ippen's Ji-shū. However there were also clear differences between the Ikkō-shū and the Ji-shū, such as the fact that the Ikkō-shū did not venerate kami and often disdained Shinto shrines.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ikkō-shū” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.