c. 1224 CE
Shinran and Jodo Shinshu
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Japanese Pure Land
Shinran develops a Japanese Pure Land form reshaping community, practice, and religious authority.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- Dating in the source document
- ~ 1224
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
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Sources
- Stanford Encyclopedia — Japanese Pure Land philosophy (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2012-11-19
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2022-09-07
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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