jodo
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Definition of jodo
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)A Japanese martial art using a short staff, originally as a defence against swords.
“Every Saturday after the karate class there was a jodo class (not judo, but jodo—the way of the short staff).”
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noun
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(uncountable)A Japanese martial art using a short staff, originally as a defence against swords.
“Every Saturday after the karate class there was a jodo class (not judo, but jodo—the way of the short staff).”
- (Japanese, uncountable)Synonym of pure land: the various realms of the buddhas and boddhisattvas.
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(Japanese, alt-of, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of jodo: any of various other pure lands.
“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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(Japanese)Synonym of Pure Land: a sect of Buddhism and its primary afterlife, the seat of the Amida Buddha.
“...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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
A borrowing of Japanese 杖道 (jōdō, literally “way of the staff”).
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