Shinran

Shinran

male, deceased (1262)
Religious leader, kyoto, shogun, Japanese Buddhist monk, kamakura period, heian period
Shinran(親鸞) (1173-1263) was a Japanese Buddhist monk, who was born in Hino (now a part of Fushimi, Kyoto) at the close of the Heian Period and live...
Rennyo

Rennyo

male, deceased (1499)
Buddhism in Japan, Japanese warrior monk, Shinsho-in, Etoh Daishi, Jōdo Shinshū, Ikkō-ikki
"'"' (1415-1499) was the 8th abbot of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism and is often referred to as the restorer of the sect (or, the second...

Shan-Tao

male
patriarch, Japanese, Japanese language, Pure Land, Pure Land Buddhism, Jōdo Shinshū…Jodo Shinshu Patriarchs
Shan-tao (Japanese: Zendo) (613-681) was a very influential writer for the Pure Land school of Buddhism that is prominent in China, Korea, Vietnam...
Hōnen Shōnin

Hōnen Shōnin

male, deceased (1212)
Buddhism in Japan, Japanese language, Japanese Buddhist monk, jodo, shu, shin…Jodo Shu
Hōnen (also Hōnen Bo Genku) (法然; 1133-1212) is the founder of the first independent branch of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism known as Jodo Shu. "Jodo"...
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

male, deceased (1966)
translation, indologist, Anglophone Japanese writer, author, Translator, Theosophist
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki was a famous Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in...
Taisen Deshimaru

Taisen Deshimaru

male
Jōdo Shinshū, Buddhist, zazen, Bangka Island, Zen Buddhist monk, pow
Taisen Deshimaru (birth name: Yasuo Deshimaru) (1914-1982) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. Born in the Saga Prefecture of Kyushu, Deshimaru...

Akegarasu Haya

male
Buddhist, Japanese, Pure Land Buddhism, Jōdo Shinshū, Buddhism in Japan, Shin Buddhist
Akegarasu Haya (1877-1967) was a Shin Buddhist student of Kiyozawa Manshi for a decade when Manshi died in 1901. Haya is a former head of...

Alfred Bloom PhD

male, 83 years old
University of Hawaii, social justice, Academic, harvard divinity school, Human Rights, Japanese language
Professor Alfred Bloom is a pioneer of Jodo Shinshu studies in the English-speaking world. Born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1926 Bloom was...

Ōtani Kōzui

male, deceased (1948)
Japanese Buddhist monk, Kazoku, Central Asian Studies, Central Asia, manchuria, Japanese
Count Otani Kozui was the 22nd Abbot of the West Honganji Monastery of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist sect in Kyoto, Japan. He is known for expeditions...
Joseph Jarman

Joseph Jarman

male, 72 years old
American jazz clarinetist, American jazz saxophonist, Avant-garde jazz musician, from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, American aikidoka, Shinshu Buddhist
Joseph Jarman (b. September 14, 1937 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas), is a jazz musician, composer and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He is perhaps best known...