Genshin
Genshin (源信; 942 – July 6, 1017), also known as Eshin Sozu, was the most influential of a number of Tendai scholars active during the tenth and eleventh centuries in Japan. He was one of the thinkers who maintained that the nenbutsu ritual, which was said to induce a vision of Amida, was an important hermeneutic principle in the Buddhist doctrinal system.The Buddhist master was one of the two leading disciple of Ryogen along with Kakuun. He studied both esoteric and esoteric teachings under this master, who was the 18th head of the Enryakuji Temple.
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