genku

Updated: August 5, 2026

For this distress neither the Tendai doctrines nor the Shingon conceptions were sufficiently simple to supply a remedy. Something more tangible and less recondite was needed, and it came , in the sequel of twenty-five years' meditation and study, to Genku posthumously called Honen Shonin a priest of the Tendai sect. "Salvation is by faith, but it is a faith ritually expressed.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era