is a Japanese Buddhist movement. It belongs to the Jōdo Shinshū, sect also known as Shin Buddhism or True Pure Land.Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Mission of Singapore, An introduction to the Head Temple - Nishi Hongwanji The movement has approximately 5.5 million members.Esben Andreasen (1998), Popular Buddhism In Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion & Culture, University of Hawaii Press, , pp. 11, 38-39, 101
The headquarters of Ōtani-ha are in Kyoto, the mother temple is Higashi Hongan-ji. The historic Shōman-ji, Nagoya also belongs to it.
Ōtani University in Kyoto belongs to Ōtani-ha.
See also Hongan-ji Pure land Buddhism Shinran
References
Bibliography Suzuki, David A. (1985), Crisis in Japanese Buddhism : case of the Otani Sect, Los Angeles : Buddhist Books International,