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{{Short description|Sub-sect of Jōdo Shinshū}}
[[File:160211 Higashi Honganji Kyoto Japan06s3.jpg|thumb|Higashi Honganji in Kyoto, the headquarters of the Ōtani-ha]]
'''Ōtani-ha''' (真宗大谷派, ''Shinshū Ōtani-ha'') is a Japanese [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] movement. It belongs to {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Jōdo Shinshū]]|italic=no}}, also known as Shin Buddhism (or True Pure Land).<ref>Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Mission of Singapore, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131219064403/http://shinmission_sg.tripod.com/id10.html An introduction to the Head Temple - Nishi Hongwanji]</ref> The movement has approximately 5.5 million members.<ref>Esben Andreasen (1998), Popular Buddhism In Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion & Culture, University of Hawaii Press, {{ISBN|0-8248-2028-2}}, pp. 11, 38-39, 101</ref>
The headquarters of Ōtani-ha are in Kyoto,<ref>[http://www.hhbt-la.org/Temple_resources.html]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306022511/http://www.hhbt-la.org/Temple_resources.html|date=March 6, 2009}}</ref> the mother temple is [[Higashi Honganji]]. The historic [[Shōman-ji, Nagoya]] also belongs to it.
[[Otani University]] in [[Kyoto]] belongs to Ōtani-ha.<ref name="enc">{{cite encyclopedia | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Japan | title = Ōtani University | url = http://rekishi.jkn21.com/ | accessdate = 2012-09-04 | year = 2012 | publisher = Shogakukan | location = Tokyo | oclc = 56431036}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Hongan-ji]]
*[[Pure land Buddhism]]
*[[Shinran]]
==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}}
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