Hōnen (法然, May 13 (April 7), 1133 – February 29, 1212) was the religious reformer and progenitor of the first independent branch of Japanese Pure Land...

Land Buddhism derived from the teachings of the Japanese ex-Tendai monk Hōnen. It was established in 1175 and is the most widely practiced branch of Buddhism...

Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Hōnen means prosperous year in Japanese, implying a rich harvest, while a matsuri is a festival. The Hōnen festival and ceremony...

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 of Japanese...

Hōnen-in (法然院) is a Buddhist temple located in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, western Japan. Honen-in is a single-estate temple located in Shikagaya, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto...

of the Old Norse name slightly predating Adam of Bremen's Winland. The Hønen Runestone was discovered in Norderhov, Norway, shortly before 1817, but...

was pardoned, but by 1212, Hōnen had died in Kyoto. Shinran never saw Hōnen following their exile. In the year of Hōnen's death, Shinran set out for the...

Songtsen Gampo Xuanzang Shandao Padmasambhava Saraha Atiśa Naropa Karmapa Hōnen Shinran Dōgen Nichiren Shamarpa Dalai Lama Panchen Lama Ajahn Mun B. R....

Honen Shonin Nijugo Reijo (法然上人二十五霊場) lit. 25 sacred sites of Hōnen Shonin is a circuit pilgrimage to 25 temples related to Hōnen Shonin, the founder...

Songtsen Gampo Xuanzang Shandao Padmasambhava Saraha Atiśa Naropa Karmapa Hōnen Shinran Dōgen Nichiren Shamarpa Dalai Lama Panchen Lama Ajahn Mun B. R....

(classified by scholars as "New Buddhism" or Shin Bukkyo) were founded: Hōnen (1133–1212) founded the Japanese Pure Land school or Jōdo-shū. Eisai (1141–1215)...

branch that exists today, and was first established by Benchō, a disciple of Hōnen, but formalized into a separate branch by Benchō's disciple Ryōchū. Originally...

Shāntideva Shāntarakshita Wohnyo Mazu Daoyi Jinul Dahui Zonggao Hongzhi Zhengjue Hōnen Shinran Dōgen Nichiren Śaṅkaranandana Virūpa Ratnākaraśānti Abhayākaragupta...

While Hōnen was discreet in his critiques of other forms of Buddhism, some of his disciples were not. A scandal involving rumors of some of Hōnen's disciples...

Kishiwada, Osaka prefecture, the Kanamara Matsuri in Kawasaki, and the Hōnen Matsuri (豊年祭, Harvest Festival) in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, though historically...

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disciple of Hōnen who advocated the ichinen-gi (一念義, "Single recitation doctrine") that led to his public censure, his later expulsion by Hōnen and eventual...

1184. Later in life he became a Jōdo-shū Buddhist priest, as a disciple of Hōnen. Atsumori's death and the circumstances surrounding it went on to be fictionalized...

Songtsen Gampo Xuanzang Shandao Padmasambhava Saraha Atiśa Naropa Karmapa Hōnen Shinran Dōgen Nichiren Shamarpa Dalai Lama Panchen Lama Ajahn Mun B. R....

ban was lifted in 1211. In spite of these setbacks, Hōnen's new Jōdo (Pure Land) school thrived. Hōnen was widely criticized for teaching that only nembutsu...

Songtsen Gampo Xuanzang Shandao Padmasambhava Saraha Atiśa Naropa Karmapa Hōnen Shinran Dōgen Nichiren Shamarpa Dalai Lama Panchen Lama Ajahn Mun B. R....

Songtsen Gampo Xuanzang Shandao Padmasambhava Saraha Atiśa Naropa Karmapa Hōnen Shinran Dōgen Nichiren Shamarpa Dalai Lama Panchen Lama Ajahn Mun B. R....

bream Festival (Chita District Minamichita Town) Okkawa Festival (Handa) Hōnen Matsuri (Komaki) Omanto festival (Takahama) Kōnomiya Hadaka Matsuri (Inazawa)...

Land"), had considerable influence on later Pure Land teachers such as Honen and Shinran. In spite of growing political tensions within the Tendai religious...

Japan is the headquarters of the Jōdo-shū (Pure Land Sect) founded by Hōnen (1133–1212), who proclaimed that sentient beings are reborn in Amida Buddha's...

Seizan (西山) is a branch of Jōdo-shū Buddhism that was founded by Hōnen's disciple, Shōkū. Shōkū often went by the name Seizan as well, however the name...

of Pure Land Buddhism, founded by Hōnen. In the backdrop of the end of the Heian period and the Genpei War, Hōnen founded the Jōdo Shū sect amongst a...

which was the last Buddhist empire of India. Chan Buddhism Chinese Buddhism Hōnen Jōdo Shinshū Jōdo-shū Neo-Confucianism Shinran Yuzu Nembutsu "阿彌陀佛". 25...

Songtsen Gampo Xuanzang Shandao Padmasambhava Saraha Atiśa Naropa Karmapa Hōnen Shinran Dōgen Nichiren Shamarpa Dalai Lama Panchen Lama Ajahn Mun B. R....

Every three years, Calgary hosts the Honens International Piano Competition (formerly known as the Esther Honens International Piano Competition). The...