Nichiren Sect

(adjective)

A branch of Buddhism based on the Lotus Sutra, which teaches that all people have an innate Buddha nature and are therefore inherently capable of attaining enlightenment in their current form and present lifetime.

Related Terms

  • Rinzai
  • Ji

Examples of Nichiren Sect in the following topics:

  • Japanese Painting and Sculpture in the Kamakura Period

    • These two new sects dominated the artwork produced during the period.
    • During this time, a number of monks who had left the Tendai sect founded separate Buddhist sects of their own.
    • Shinran, disciple of Hōnen and founder of the Jōdo Shinshū sect;
    • Ippen, founder of the Ji sect, which emphasized devotion to Amida Buddha through an ecstatic dance;
    • Nichiren, founder of the Nichiren Sect, which emphasized devotion to the Lotus Sutra, a manual of Buddhist aphorisms presented as a discourse from the Buddha.
  • Rinpa School Painting in the Edo Period

    • In 1615, Hon'ami Kōetsu founded an artistic community of craftsmen, supported by wealthy merchant patrons of the Nichiren Buddhist sect at Takagamine in northeastern Kyoto.
  • Sect

    • A sect is a group with distinctive religious, political, or philosophical beliefs.
    • A sect is a group with distinctive religious, political, or philosophical beliefs.
    • In the church-sect typology, sects are described as newly formed religious groups that form to protest elements of their parent religion.
    • A sect differs from cults in the degree that members are recruited and kept.
    • Evaluate the varying ways that sects have been understood over time.
  • The Church-Sect Typology

    • If the sect withers in membership, it will dissolve.
    • The adoption of denomination-like characteristics can either turn the sect into a full-blown denomination or, if a conscious effort is made to maintain some of the spontaneity and protest components of sects, an institutionalized sect can result.
    • Institutionalized sects are halfway between sects and denominations on the continuum of religious development.
    • Cults are, like sects, new religious groups.
    • Cults, like sects, can develop into denominations.
  • Cult

    • The Christian counter-cult movement is a social movement of Christian ministries and individual Christian counter-cult activists who oppose religious sects thought to either partially or entirely fail to abide by the teachings of the Bible.
    • These religious sects are also known among Christians as cults or discernment ministries.
    • Becker created four categories by splitting church into "ecclesia" and "denomination", and sect into "sect" and "cult."
    • Sociologists still maintain that unlike sects, which are products of religious schism that maintain continuity with traditional beliefs and practices, cults arise spontaneously around novel beliefs and practices.
    • While most scholars no longer refer to any new religious movements as cults, some sociologists still favor retaining the word as it was used in church-sect typologies.
  • Religion

    • Members of lower classes tend to be affiliated with more fundamentalist religions and sect-like groups.
    • Baptists and members of Protestant fundamentalist sects (which tend to be decentralized and informal) have below average SES.
  • Muhammad's Successors

    • After Muhammad's death in 632 CE, there were conflicts among his followers as to who would become his successor, which created a split in Islam between the Sunni and Shi'a sects.
    • The followers of Ali later became the Shi'a minority sect of Islam, which rejects the legitimacy of the first three caliphs.
    • The followers of all four Rashidun caliphs (Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali) became the majority Sunni sect.
  • Political Parties from 1800–1824

    • In an analysis of the contemporary party system, Jefferson wrote on Feb. 12, 1798: "Two political Sects have arisen within the US, the one believing that the executive is the branch of our government which the most needs support; the other, that like the analogous branch in the English Government, it is already too strong for the republican parts of the Constitution; and therefore in equivocal cases they incline to the legislative powers: the former of these are called federalists, sometimes aristocrats or monocrats, and sometimes tories, after the corresponding sect in the English Government of exactly the same definition: the latter are stiled republicans, whigs, jacobins, anarchists, disorganizers, etc. these terms are in familiar use with most persons. "
  • Introducing observational studies and experiments

    • See the case study inSection 1.1 for another example of an experiment, though that study did not employ a placebo.
  • Clinton and Domestic Policy

    • The fears of those who saw government as little more than a necessary evil appeared to be confirmed in the spring of 1993, when federal and state law enforcement authorities laid siege to the compound of a religious sect called the Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas.
    • A final assault on the compound was made on April 19, and 76 men, women, and children died in a fire thought to be set by members of the sect.
    • Many others committed suicide or were killed by fellow sect members.
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