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Genshin

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Genshin (942–1017). A Japanese Tendai priest and scholar who produced a significant corpus of works on a wide variety of Buddhist topics. He is known primarily as the author of the Ōjōyōshū, or ‘Essentials of Rebirth (in the Pure Land)’, a systematic survey of Chinese Pure Land literature that helped pave the way for the development of Pure Land as an independent school a century later. This work was also one of the few original Japanese works that travelled back to China and influenced the development of Buddhism there.

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Genshin

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Genshin or Eshin Sōzu (942–1017). Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai sect. Genshin was one of the most brilliant Tendai monks of his age, and left many important works of Tendai Buddhist doctrines, including the Ichjō Yōketsu, (Essentials of the One Vehicle), which argued that all beings are capable of attaining buddhahood. However, he is most famous as the author of the seminal Pure Land text, the Ōjōyōshū (Essentials of Birth in Pure Land).

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