The Protestants of Japanese Buddhism are the followers of the Shin sect, founded by his reverence Shinran, in 1262. Shinran was a pupil of Honen, who founded the Jodo shiu, and was of noble descent. While in Kioto, at thirty years of age, he married a lady of noble blood, named Tamayori-hime, the daughter of the Kaumbaku. Devout prayer, purity, and earnestness of life, and trust in Buddha himself as the only worker of righteousness, are insisted upon. Other sects teach the doctrine of salvation by works. Shinran taught that it is faith in Buddha that accomplishes the salvation of the believer.
To treat of the doctrinal difference and various customs of the different denominations would require a volume. Japanese Buddhism richly deserves thorough study, and a scholarly treaties by itself.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
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