hiso-hizoku (hiso-hizoku)

(Language: Japanese)

Short Description: Neither a monk nor a layperson, and that his [Shinran] faith transcended these institutional and social definitions.

Long Description: A term used by Shinran when he was sent into exile; it indicated that he was neither a monk nor a layperson, and that his faith transcended these institutional and social definitions.

Sources: Living in Amida’s Universal Vow: Essays in Shin Buddhism, by Alfred Bloom