宗

Meaning

宗 centers on a foundational source or core principle, especially in a religious or doctrinal context: a sect, denomination, or the main point and essence of a teaching.

• 宗教しゅうきょう
  N3

  religion; religious affiliation; belief; faith; creed

• 宗しゅう

  sect; denomination

• 宗派しゅうは

  sect; denomination

• 正宗しょうしゅう

  correct doctrine; orthodox sect

• 正宗まさむね

  famous sword; sword blade by Masamune

• 宗主そうしゅ

  suzerain

• 改宗かいしゅう

  religious conversion

• 浄土真宗じょうどしんしゅう

  Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School

• 真言宗しんごんしゅう

  Shingon sect

• 天台宗てんだいしゅう

  Tendai sect (of Buddhism)

• 宗家そうけ

  head of family; head house

• 日蓮宗にちれんしゅう

  Nichiren school of Buddhism

• 浄土宗じょうどしゅう

  Pure Land sect (of Buddhism); Jodo (sect)

• 曹洞宗そうとうしゅう

  Soto school (of Zen Buddhism)

• 臨済宗りんざいしゅう

  Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism

• 時宗じしゅう

  Jishū sect (of Buddhism)

• 禅宗ぜんしゅう

  Zen (Buddhism)

• 真宗しんしゅう

  Shin Buddhism

• 宗廟そうびょう

  ancestral shrine (temple); mausoleum (of one's ancestors); Imperial mausoleum

• 宗旨しゅうし

  tenets (of a religious sect); doctrines

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