Meaning of jōdō | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of Pure Land: a sect of Buddhism and its primary afterlife, the seat of the Amida Buddha.
   Japanese
2. Alternative letter-case form of jodo: any of various other pure lands.
   Japanese, alt-of, uncountable
3. A Japanese martial art using a short staff, originally as a defence against swords.
   uncountable
4. Synonym of pure land: the various realms of the buddhas and boddhisattvas.
   Japanese, uncountable

Examples

“Every Saturday after the karate class there was a jodo class (not judo, but jodo—the way of the short staff).”

“...zealous persons, chiefly the followers of the Sect of Siodo...”

“The Jō-do-shū, or Pure Land sect.”

“In 1579, the two great sects of Nichiren and Jōdo held a great discussion upon religious subjects.”

“In the far off West there is said to be the home of Amida... He is free from the chain of transmigration and enjoys a conscious and happy immortality in ‘Jodo’,—that is, in the Pure Land.”

“The Jōdo appeals naturally more to plebeian requirements because of the simpleness of its faith and teaching.”

“Jodo Buddhism... had in its structure a grace-based doctrine of salvation of trusting in its goddess that was similar to the doctrine of grace in Christianity.”

“Simple faith in Buddha's grace was all that one needed to cross this ocean of samsara to the Jodo or 'Pure Land'.”

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