# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kakuban
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:45:21.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kakuban"
name: "Kakuban"
slug: "kakuban"
description: "Kakuban, known posthumously as Kōgyō-Daishi (興教大師) was a priest of the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan and credited as a reformer, though his efforts also led to a schism between Kogi Shingon-shū  and Shingi Shingon-shū . Kakuban is also famous for his introduction of the \"esoteric nembutsu\"."
tagline: "Japanese Shingon monk (1095–1144)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Koyasan-Okunoin-Kakuban.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1095-07-21"
deathDate: "1144-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.733590666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A6%9A%E9%91%81"
    title: "覚鑁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakuban"
    title: "Kakuban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakuban"
    title: "Kakuban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A6%BA%E9%91%81"
    title: "覺鑁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Какубан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakuban"
    title: "Kakuban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1676043"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump