Shinran (親鸞 May 21 1173 – January 16 1263) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who was born in Hino (now a part of Fushimi Kyoto) at the turbulent close of the Heian Period and lived during the Kamakura Period. Shinran was a pupil of Hōnen and the founder of what ultimately became the Jōdo Shinshū sect in Japan.
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