religion, sect, denomination, main point, origin, essence

Radicals

Common words

• 宗教【しゅうきょう】
  religion, religious affiliation, belief, faith, creed, religious activity
• 宗門【しゅうもん】
  (religious) denomination, sect
• 宗派【しゅうは】
  sect, denomination, school (e.g. of poetry)
• 浄土真宗【じょうどしんしゅう】
  Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect), True Pure Land School
• 宗主国【そうしゅこく】
  suzerain state
• 天台宗【てんだいしゅう】
  Tendai sect (of Buddhism)
• 宗教家【しゅうきょうか】
  religious leader, person of religion, religious figure, religionist
• 浄土宗【じょうどしゅう】
  Pure Land sect (of Buddhism), Jodo (sect)
• 宗家【そうけ】
  head of family, originator
• 禅宗【ぜんしゅう】
  Zen (Buddhism)
• 宗祖【しゅうそ】
  sect founder
• 改宗【かいしゅう】
  religious conversion
• 宗旨【しゅうし】
  tenets (of a religious sect), doctrines, (religious) sect, denomination, religion, faith, one's principles, one's tastes, one's preferences
• 正宗【まさむね】
  famous sword, sword blade by Masamune, sake, Japanese rice wine, brand of sake from Nada region during Tenpō era (1830-1844)