Tradition Institution Buddhist traditions
Hossō-shū
日本の法相宗 ja
Japanese school of Yogacara Buddhism
- Also called Hosso
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Branches and affiliations
Many paths. Shared histories.
What this means
Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.
Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded as a branch of
Traditions whose own records say they belong to it
1 tradition names Hossō-shū as its own — an affiliation, so kept apart from the tree.
Attributed founding
Whom the records name as founder
What this means
An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Figures · 1
Begin with a figure
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Places · 4
Places and sites
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 4 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Hōryū-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan -
Kōfuku-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan -
Yakushi-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan -
Yamada-dera
Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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