Jodo-shinshu


[joh-doh shin-shoo] /ˈdʒoʊ doʊ ˈʃɪn ʃu/

noun, Buddhism.
1.
the largest sect of Jodo, stressing simple trust rather than ritual as the means to salvation.

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