Jodo’s Connections

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Serves

• Amida

  Amida presides over Jōdo, the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, welcoming all who sincerely invoke his name through the nembutsu.

Created by

• Hozo Bosatsu

  Hōzō Bosatsu's forty-eight vows, accumulated over immeasurable ages of bodhisattva practice, created the Jōdo — Amida's Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss where all who invoke the nembutsu are reborn.

Equivalent to

• Sukhavati(Buddhist),Western Pure Land(Chinese)

  Sukhavati, the Chinese Western Pure Land, and the Japanese Jōdo are the same paradise of Amitabha transmitted from Indian Mahayana Buddhism through China and into Japan, where devotees seek rebirth through faith and recitation of the buddha's name.

Associated with

• Byodo-in

  The Byōdō-in Phoenix Hall in Uji is the supreme architectural expression of Amida's Jōdo on earth. Viewed across its lotus pond, the hall's winged form evokes Amida's descent, while the interior recreates the Pure Land with sculpture, painting, and garden.

• Honen

  Hōnen devoted his life to teaching the path to Amida's Jōdo, founding Jōdo Shū to make the Pure Land accessible to all through the nembutsu alone.

• Shinran

  Shinran taught that rebirth in the Jōdo comes entirely through other-power, not human effort. His Jōdo Shinshū made the Pure Land accessible even to those who considered themselves too sinful for salvation.