Shinran
Sign in to savewas a key Japanese Buddhist figure of the Kamakura Period who is regarded as the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū school of Japanese Buddhism. A pupil of Hōnen, the founder of the Japanese Pure Land movement, Shinran articulated a distinctive Pure Land vision that emphasized faith and absolute reliance on Amida Buddha’s other-power.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1173
- Died
- 1263
- Works
- 106
Top works
- 親鸞集; 日蓮集
- お経浄土真宗
- 淨土和讚; 高僧和讃; 正像末和讃
- 歎異鈔講讚
- 歎異抄愚註
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- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 114
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Metabolism of 2-hydroxy-3-deoxyestradiol by rat liver microsomes
· 1977 · cited 10x
- Isolation and characterization of a Golgi-rich fraction from the Harding-Passey mouse melanoma.
· 1978 · cited 6x
- The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way: A Translation of Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho, Volume IV.
· 1991
- On Teaching, Practice, Faith, and Enlightenment
· 2025
- ELECTROPHORETIC PROFILE OF TYROSINASE TREATED WITH NEURAMINIDASE IN VARIOUS SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS FROM MOUSE MELANOMA*
· 1979
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Key facts
- Religious biography.name
- Shinran (親鸞)
- Religious biography.image
- Shinran (Nara National Museum).jpg
- Religious biography.caption
- Shinran (ICP) (Nara National Museum)
- Religious biography.birth_name
- Matsuwakamaro
- Religious biography.birth_date
- May 21, 1173
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Heian-kyō, Yamashiro Province (now Kyoto, Japan)
- Religious biography.death_place
- Heian-kyō, Yamashiro Province
- Religious biography.religion
- Buddhism
- Religious biography.school
- Buddhism
- Religious biography.title
- Founder of Buddhism
- Religious biography.teacher
- Hōnen
- Religious biography.spouse
- Eshinni
- Religious biography.children
- Kakushinnhi, Zenran, others
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- ShinranShonin.png
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- Commons category
- Shinran
- date of birth
- 1173-05-14
- date of death
- 1263-01-09
- name in kana
- しんらん
- religious name
- 範宴
- name in native language
- 藤井善信
- art name
- 善信房
- birth name
- 十八公麿
- posthumous name
- 見真大師
- nickname
- 愚禿釋親鸞
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24 sectionsContents
- Names
- Biography
- Youth and monastic life
- Disciple of Hōnen
- Life in the provinces
- Retirement in Kyōto
- Death and posthumous events
- Timeline
- Teaching
- Amitabha and the Pure Land
- Nembutsu and shinjin
- The natural non-practice practice
- Shinran's doctrinal system
- The Path to the Pure Land
- Fruits of the Pure Land path
- Transference and evil transformed into good
- Ethics and evil
- Other religious paths and practices
- Comparisons to protestantism
- Cultural legacy
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
was a key Japanese Buddhist figure of the Kamakura Period who is regarded as the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū school of Japanese Buddhism. A pupil of Hōnen, the founder of the Japanese Pure Land movement, Shinran articulated a distinctive Pure Land vision that emphasized faith and absolute reliance on Amida Buddha’s other-power.
While Shinran trained as a Tendai monk on Mount Hiei, he lived much of his life as a married Buddhist teacher unlike other Kamakura Buddhist reformers, and he described himself as "neither monk nor layman". Shinran's major work, the Kyōgyōshinshō (Teaching, Practice, Faith, and Realization), is a systematic exposition and defense of Pure Land doctrine. Shinran taught that liberation arises from the entrusting mind (shinjin) awakened through Amida's compassionate power, not from any merit or power of one's own. His interpretation profoundly reshaped the course of Japanese Buddhism and continues to influence East Asian religious thought.