Definition of "jodo"

jodo¹

noun
uncountable
1. A Japanese martial art using a short staff, originally as a defence against swords.
  Quotations
  Every Saturday after the karate class there was a jodo class (not judo, but jodo—the way of the short staff).
  2007, Paul Walker, Lessons with the Master, page 15

jodo²

noun
uncountable
1. (Japanese Buddhism) Synonym of pure land: the various realms of the buddhas and boddhisattvas.