Ippen Shōnin (一遍上人) 1234/9-1289 was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher (hijiri) whose movement, the Ji-shū became one of the major currents of medieval Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.
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Ippen leaving home at thirteen to begin learning Buddhism (Scroll I of the Ippen Shōnin Eden)
Ippen (dressed in black on the right) meets an ascetic in the Kumano Mountains.
Ippen and his followers arriving at a town
Swarming crowd in Kyoto (Scroll VII, Section 2 of the Ippen Shōnin Eden)
Taa Amidabutsu, a disciple of Ippen and architect of the Ji-shū sect
Statue of Ippen at Hōgon-ji, Matsuyama
Ippen hijiri performing the dancing nembutsuIn their orbit 1
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Lived 1239 to 1289 · aged 50
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