Hōnen
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Hōnen, also known as Genkū, was the founding figure of the Jōdo-shū, the first independent branch of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.
Portrait of Honen by Fujiwara Takanobu, 12th Century
Hōnen studying the three scriptures of the Tendai school at Mount Hiei, from the Honen Shonin Eden (Chion-in Version), an Illustrated biography of Hōnen c. 14th century
Preparations for the Ohara debate
Hōnen meets Kujo Kanezane.
Shinran
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Shinran was a key Japanese Buddhist figure of the Kamakura Period who is regarded as the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū school of Japanese Buddhism. A pupil of Hōnen, the founder of the Japanese Pure Lan
Hōnen
…followers in 1207. Hōnen was eventually pardoned and allowed to return to Kyoto, where he stayed for a short time before his death. Hōnen was a teacher to Shinran, the founder of Jōdo Shinshū, the other major Japanese Pure Land tradition. As such, he is also considered the Seventh Patriarch in the Shinshū tradition…
Shinran (ICP) (Nara National Museum)
Statue of Shinran Shonin in Kyōto
A scroll depicting part of the life of Shinran
Kamakura-period statue of Thousand-armed Kannon at Sanjūsangen-dō in Kyoto, Japan.