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religion

sect

(religious) denomination

sect

suzerain state

Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect)

Tendai sect (of Buddhism)

religious leader

Pure Land sect (of Buddhism)

head of family

Zen (Buddhism)

sect

the same sect

leading figure

Ikkō sect (of Buddhism)

the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period

suzerain

major religion

convert (e.g. to Buddhism)

Hosso sect of Buddhism (Japanese equivalent of the Chinese Faxiang sect)

Sanron sect (of Buddhism)

suzerain

Jishū sect (of Buddhism)

one's religious sect

study of religious doctrine

second-generation believers

religious corporation

religious leader

famous sword

regulations governing Chinese religious observances and social order

religious

piety

religious studies

Shingon sect

founding of a religion (or sect)

(major) world religion (i.e. Christianity, Buddhism, Islam)

religious law

non-sectarian

religious

holy city

religious matters

suzerainty

religious group

sociology of religion

new religion

Religious Corporations Act

religious opposition

religious terrorism

cult religion

six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

religious history

religious painting

Sōwa school of tea ceremony

Japanese Association for Religious Studies

irreligion

the Reformation

ethnic religion

Shin Buddhism

religious war

primitive religion

Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)

(the) religious right

doctrinal dispute (within or between religious schools)

Zen (Buddhism)

the Inquisition

religious issue

religious regulations

another sect

primitive religion

Otani sect of Shinshu

religious discrimination

magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)

Fuke school (defunct sect of Zen Buddhism)

Counter-Reformation

one's family or clan

religious education

denominational doctrine

opposition to religion

Nenbutsu sect (of Buddhism)

religious atmosphere

sect founder

anthropology of religion

Shingi Shingon ("New Shingon" school of Buddhism)

Japanese Association of Religious Organizations

customs of a sect

religious court

Kogi Shingon ("Old Shingon" school of Buddhism)

religious drama

religious independence

Christianity

religious fervour

sacred art

religious music

secularism

different religion or sect

Nichiren sect of Buddhism (sometimes specifically referring to the Hokke school of Nichiren)

philosophy of religion

new religion

Sōtan school of tea ceremony

imperial ancestors

organized religion

religious conversion

ethical religion

tantrism

comparative religion

believer

Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism

Yuzu Nembutsu (school of Pure Land Buddhism)

revealed religion

Nichiren Shoshu (sect of Buddhism)

Ritsu (school of Buddhism)

believer of my denomination

Fayan school (of Zen Buddhism)

World Conference of Religions for Peace

Nichiren school of Buddhism

door-to-door solicitor

ancestors

Yunmen School

military order

Ritsu (school of Buddhism)

Federation of New Religious Organizations in Japan

Kegon (sect of Buddhism)

master poet

Honmon Butsuryū-shū (branch of Nichiren Buddhism)

ancestors of the Imperial Family

Hosso sect (of Buddhism)

conversion (to a different religion, denomination, etc.)

Dokuganryū Masamune (NHK Taiga drama, 1987)

Zen (Buddhism)

heresy

walleye pollack (Theragra chalcogramma)

Minister of Rites (Zhou dynasty China)

frigate tuna (Auxis spp.)

master

Christianity

moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens)

traditional Zen-style architecture

Kusha Sect

Sōhen school of tea ceremony

root of a moso bamboo

moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens)

Soto school (of Zen Buddhism)

ancestral shrine (temple)

Ōbaku school of Zen Buddhism

tenets (of a religious sect)