Kakuban
Japanese Shingon monk (1095–1144)
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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".
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