Genshin
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Genshin (942-1017) was a major figure in the Japanese development of Pure Land Buddhist teaching. |
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Genshin (942-1017) was a major figure in the Japanese development of Pure Land teaching, author of the Essentials of Rebirth [in the Pure Land] (Ōjōyōshū), a manual which popularized the teaching and illustrated the path to salvation. His writing was instrumental in Hōnen’s discovery of Shan-tao’s teaching of nembutsu. In Shinran’s lineage he was the sixth great teacher. |
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The Essential Shinran: A Buddhist Path of True Entrusting |
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