净土宗【英】

Jintu Zong (The Pure Land School of Buddhism)

定义

汉传佛教十宗之一。根源于大乘佛教净土信仰，专修往生阿弥陀佛净土之法门而得名的一个宗派。中国净土宗祖庭是江西庐山东林寺。

It is one of the ten Buddhist schools in China whose chief tenet is salvation by faith in Amitābha Buddha. The name derives from its focus on the afterworld of Amitabha. Donglin Monastery of Mount Lushan in Jiangxi Province is the birthplace of the Pure Land School.