Karoku Persecution

Japanese: 嘉禄法難 - かろくほうなん

...The mountain name is Hokoku-san and the temple name is Nembutsu-Zammai-in. In 1227 (Antei 1), during the so-called Karoku Persecution, the monks of Enryaku-ji Temple destroyed the mausoleum of Honen-bo Genku, the founder of the Jodo sect, located in Otani, Higashiyama. Genku's disciples hid their master's remains in Saga and Uzumasa, then cremated him in Aono and buried some of his bones and his ashes. It is said that this was the first mausoleum to be built here....

From the Jodo sect

...A sect of Buddhism founded by Honen. It takes as its fundamental sutras and treatises the three sutras (the three Pure Land sutras) of the Sutra of Immeasurable Life, the Sutra of Contemplation of Immeasurable Life, and the Sutra of Amitabha, as well as the Treatise on Pure Land written by Vasubandhu of India, and aims to be reborn in Amida Buddha's Pure Land paradise by chanting the name of Amida Buddha (reciting Namu Amida Butsu aloud). Zendo of the Tang Dynasty was the founder, and Honen was the sect's founder. In 1175 (Angen 1), Honen became convinced of exclusive nembutsu practice. Although a religious organization had not yet been formed, this was the time when the Jodo sect was founded....

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Karoku Persecution" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…山号を報国山，院号を念仏三昧院という。1227年(安貞1)いわゆる嘉禄法難のとき，延暦寺の衆徒が東山の大谷にある浄土宗の祖法然房源空の廟堂を破却すると，源空の門弟たちは師の遺骸を嵯峨や太秦（うずまさ）にかくしたすえ，粟生野（あおの）で荼毘（だび）に付し，遺骨の一部と灰を埋めた。この地に建てた廟所が初めという。…

【浄土宗】より

…法然によって開かれた仏教の一宗派。《無量寿経》《観無量寿経》《阿弥陀経》の三経(浄土三部経)とインドの世親の著した《浄土論》を正依の経論とし，称名（しようみよう）念仏(南無阿弥陀仏と口に称える)によって，阿弥陀仏の極楽浄土へ往生することを期す。唐の善導を高祖，法然を宗祖とする。1175年(安元1)法然は43歳で専修（せんじゆ）念仏の確信をえた。まだ教団は形成されていなかったが，このときをもって浄土宗開創とする。…

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