Modern Jishu

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ZhengShen
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Modern Jishu

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Greetings - and I hope I'm not posting too much lately! But I'm curious if anyone knows anything about the current way of nembutsu is the Jishu. Like many, I've been very strongly impacted over the years by Ippen's "No Abode," but can find nothing on the modern Jishu in English.

Many thanks!
Zheng Shen

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Re: Modern Jishu

Post by 源食う »

From the Jishu website: http://www.jishu.or.jp/

There are about 400 temples in Japan (seems to be more common in Eastern Japan), and the main temple is Shojoji, also known as Yugyoji, in Kanagawa Prefecture.

In the Edo period, the name Jishu was changed from 時衆 (Time-Group), which was used almost exclusively by members Jishu members, to 時宗 (Time-Sect).

Their timeline from the 1700s on mostly describes structures being destroyed, built, or rebuilt. They apparently operated schools in the 1910s until they burned down in 1919, and have had scrolls recognized as national treasures.

They offer many of the services most temples in Japan do (vermillion stamps, blessings, funerals, sutra copying, etc).

They have a number of holidays/festivals throughout the year, http://www.jishu.or.jp/yugyouji-an-annual-function you might be able to google translate but some interesting ones are "Gofusan" or card distribution, odori-nembutsu, a day for honoring animals buried in their columbarium, and "Ometto" (Lamp Extinguishing?) which seems to be a nembutsu retreat where you can "experience the world of nembutsu" and "entering the reward land."

Hope this helps! It seems like their Japanese web presence is much smaller than other sects, and their English resources are basically non existent.
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