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The '''Ohigashi schism''' (お東騒動) was a religious [[schism]] in the [[Ōtani-ha]] (also known as [[Higashi Honganji]]) subsect of the [[Jōdo Shinshū]] school of [[Buddhism in Japan|Buddhism]] that occurred in 1969 after a reformist group created internal divisions.

==History==
The Dobokai Movement (同朋会運動), a reform group within Higashi Honganji, officially began on the 700th memorial of [[Shinran]] in 1962, though its roots were in a movement started in 1947 by a group of practitioners calling themselves the ''shinjinsha'' "true person community".<ref name="Esben">Popular Buddhism In Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion & Culture by Esben Andreasen, pp. 26, 69-73 / University of Hawaii Press 1998, {{ISBN|0-8248-2028-2}}</ref> The grass-roots reform group was led by [[Kurube Shin'yū]]. [[Akegarasu Haya]], [[Soga Ryōjin]], and other disciples of [[Kiyozawa Manshi]] were also closely involved.<ref name="Tahara">Higashi Honganji sanjūnen funsō 東本願寺三十年紛争 by Tahara Yukio 田原由紀雄, pp. 37-41 / Hakubasha 2004, INBN978-4-938651-51-0</ref>

The goal of the Dobokai movement was to awaken and unite members of Higashi Honganji due to internal conflict over differences of doctrinal opinion such as over the idea of [[shinjin]] and whether the [[pure land]] was to be entered in death or in this life. The Dobokai movement based itself largely on the ''[[Tannishō]]'', a collection of sayings attributed to Shinran with commentaries by [[Yuien-bo]], one of his disciples, and the idea of cutting through spiritual differences.<ref name="Esben"/>

The movement split Higashi Honganji into four different groups. What is now known as the Higashi Honganji-ha is centered in Tokyo. The physical property of Higashi Honganji temple is run by the much-larger Ōtani-ha, which changed the temple's name to "Shinshū Mausoleum". Meanwhile, the treasure of Higashi Honganji-ha at the time, amounting to about $200 million in donations, was seized for use by a "nonprofit organization" which does not maintain any temples.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} In 2012 a court ruled that this money must be returned.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}

==References==
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'''Bibliography'''
* Suzuki, David A. (1985). Crisis in Japanese Buddhism : case of the Otani Sect. Los Angeles : Buddhist Books International. {{ISBN|0914910515}}
* Shojun Bandō, Harold Stewart, Ann T. Rogers, Minor L. Rogers (trans.): [https://web.archive.org/web/20130210115106/http://www.bdkamerica.org/digital/dBET_Tannisho-Ofumi_1996.pdf Tannishō: Passages Deploring Deviations of Faith and Rennyo Shōnin Ofumi: The Letters of Rennyo]. Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research 1996. {{ISBN|1-886439-03-6}}

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[[Category:Jōdo Shinshū]]
[[Category:Shinshū Ōtani-ha]]
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[[Category:Incidents in the history of Buddhism in Japan]]

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