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The Canon · No. 053
Pure Land Buddhism
Jodo Shu and Jodo Shinshu; Jingtu
c.5th c. CE – present · Dharmic / Indian · Living · China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.150 CE Pure Land sutras translated into Chinese.
- 402 CE Huiyuan's group on Mount Lu vows rebirth in the Pure Land.
- 613–681 CE Shandao systematises the practice in China.
- 1175 CE Honen founds the exclusive nembutsu movement in Japan; he is later exiled for it.
- 1207, 1224 CE Shinran exiled with Honen; later founds what becomes Jodo Shinshu.
- 1415–1499 CE Rennyo turns Jodo Shinshu into a mass movement.
- 1488–1580 CE The Ikko-ikki — Pure Land peasant leagues seize and govern Kaga province for nearly a century and fight Oda Nobunaga to a standstill. An egalitarian religious peasant republic in feudal Japan.
- 1580 CE Nobunaga's eleven-year siege of the Ishiyama Honganji ends; the movement is broken as a military force.
- 1602 CE Tokugawa splits the Honganji into East and West to weaken it; both survive today.
- 1899 CE Buddhist Churches of America founded by Japanese immigrants.
- 1942–45 CE Japanese American internment; Pure Land temples become community centres in the camps.
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