The New International Encyclopædia/Ts'ing-tu

​Ts’ing-tu, or Jōdō. The Chinese and the Japanese names respectively of “The Land of Bliss,” sometimes called the “Paradise of the West,” presided over by Amitabha (or Amida) Buddha, re-birth in which is promised to all who put their faith in Amida. Life is there so long that it is practically eternal, and as it is a place of surpassing delight, free from all troubles, all pain and all misery, and can be reached without the perforniance of works of any kind, its attainment has become the aim of the adherents of the Ts’ing-tu sect of Buddhists in China, and the Jōdō and Shinshiu sects of Japan. Nirvana is too difficult. See Sukhāvatī and Shinshiu; and Edkins, Chinese Buddhism (London, 1880).

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