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Risshū
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Also known as Ritsu school, Risshū (Buddhism)

thumb|Tōshōdai-ji in Nara

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thumb|Tōshōdai-ji in Nara

, also Ritsu-shu, is one of the six schools of Nara Buddhism in Japan, noted for its use of the Vinaya textual framework of the Dharmaguptaka, one of the early schools of Buddhism; Risshū is the Japanese term for Vinaya.

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