Ippen

Also known as Ippen Shōnin, Chishin, Enshō Daishi, Yugyō Shōnin

1234/9–1289 was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher (hijiri) whose movement, the became one of the major currents of medieval Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.

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Religious biography.religion: Buddhism
Religious biography.birth_date: 1234/9
Religious biography.birth_place: Hōgon-ji, Matsuyama, Iyo Province
Religious biography.birthname: Kawano Tokiuji (河野時氏), Tsūshū (通秀), or Tsūshō (通尚).
Religious biography.title: Grand Master (Daishi; 大師)
Religious biography.honorific suffix: Shōnin (上人)
Religious biography.name: Ippen
Religious biography.nationality: Japanese
Religious biography.era: Kamakura Period
Religious biography.school: Ji-shū
Religious biography.dharma_name: Chishin (智真)
Religious biography.monastic_name: Ippen (一遍)
Religious biography.posthumous_name: Enshō Daishi (円照大師) or Shōjō Daishi (証誠大師)
Religious biography.death_date: 1289
Religious biography.other_names: "Itinerant Shōnin" (Yugyō Shōnin 遊行上人) or the “The Saint Who Cast Aside” (Sute-hijiri 捨聖)
Religious biography.death_place: Shinkō-ji (now Kobe)
Religious biography.teacher: Shōtatsu (聖達)
Religious biography.influences: Shōkū (証空)

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Japan
Place of birth: Hōgon-ji Temple
Occupation: Buddhist monk
Languages spoken: Japanese
Religion: Ji-shū
Image: Ippen2.jpg

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date of birth: 1239-03-21
date of death: 1289-09-09
name in kana: いっぺん
name in native language: 一遍
Commons category: Ippen
depicted by: Ippen Shōnin Eden

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Contents

Biography
Early life
Forming a new hijiri order
Death and Legacy
Teachings
Doctrine
Saying the nembutsu
Hijiri practices
Method of propagation
Art
References
Bibliography
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1234/9–1289 was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher (hijiri) whose movement, the became one of the major currents of medieval Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.

Born in what is now Ehime Prefecture, he studied at the Seizan branch of Jōdo-shū before meeting many Shingon- and Tendai-associated hijiri, and then became a hijiri himself. During a Kumano pilgrimage, Ippen had an experience that inspired him to spread the Pure Land faith throughout Japan. Accompanied by bands of followers, he traveled throughout Japan teaching that salvation lay in the single-minded invocation of Amida’s Name and that the very moment of recitation unites the reciter with the timeless enlightenment of the Buddha. Ippen traveled over fifteen hundred miles, visiting every major population center and devotional center in Japan, such as Kumano, Zenkō-ji, Taima-dera, and Mount Kōya.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ippen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.