jodo
Meanings
noun
- A Japanese martial art using a short staff, originally as a defence against swords.
noun
- Synonym of pure land: the various realms of the buddhas and boddhisattvas.
name
- Synonym of Pure Land: a sect of Buddhism and its primary afterlife, the seat of the Amida Buddha.
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of jodo: any of various other pure lands.
Word forms
Etymology
A borrowing of Japanese 杖道 (jōdō, literally “way of the staff”).
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