Risshū (Buddhism)
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The Ritsu school was founded in Japan by the blind Chinese priest Jianzhen, better known by his Japanese name Ganjin. Ganjin traveled to Japan at the request of Japanese priests, and established the Tōshōdai-ji in Nara. During the Kamakura period, the Ritsu sect was divided into schools at Tōshōdai-ji, Kaidan-in, Saidai-ji, and Sennyū-ji. However, during the Meiji period, the Ritsu sect was incorporated within the Shingon sect by decree of the Japanese government.[2] Today only Tōshōdai-ji, which resisted the government measures, retains its identity as a Ritsu temple.
History
Jianzhen reached Japan in 753/4.[2] He introduced the Four Part Vinaya Code (in Japanese, the Template:Ill), a series of monastic precepts based on Chinese Buddhism.[2] He re-ordained Japanese priests, who renounced their previous, 'unorthodox' initiations, and therefore became the first formally ordained monks in Japan.[2]
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The Risshū school rejected the Tendai position on the relationship between the Vinaya and the Lotus Sutra.[3]
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References
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Bibliography
- Bunyiu Nanjio (1886). A short history of the twelve Japanese Buddhist sects, Tokyo: Bukkyo-sho-ei-yaku-shupan-sha, pp. 20–31
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