# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rennyo
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:00:28.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rennyo"
name: "Rennyo"
slug: "rennyo"
description: "Rennyo was a descendant of Shinran and the 8th head priest of the Hongan-ji branch of Jōdo Shinshū, a major Japanese Buddhist tradition. He is known for his tireless preaching of the Shin teaching and is credited with transforming the Honganji into a major religious organization. According to Dobbins, during Rennyo's tenure, Hongan-ji temple \"emerged as the premier institution of the school, and the Shinshū itself burgeoned into one of Japan's largest and most powerful schools of Buddhism.\" Shinshū Buddhists often refer to him as the restorer of the sect. He was also known as Shinshō-in (信証院), and posthumously Etō Daishi (慧灯大師)."
tagline: "8th Monshu (head-priest) of the Honganji Temple of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rennyo5.1.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1415-04-13"
deathDate: "1499-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.56
  momentum:             1.494987468671679
  historical:           10.530228
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8E%B2%E5%A6%82"
    title: "莲如"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennyo"
    title: "Rennyo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennyo"
    title: "Rennyo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "رننیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennyo"
    title: "Rennyo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennyo"
    title: "Rennyo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennyo"
    title: "Rennyo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%93%AE%E5%A6%82"
    title: "蓮如"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%91"
    title: "Рэннё"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennyo"
    title: "Rennyo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BE"
    title: "Ренньо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323600"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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