When I deeply consider Amida's Vow contemplated through five kalpas, it was, after all, for me, Shinran, alone.
弥陀の五劫思惟の願をよくよく案ずれば、ひとへに親鸞一人がためなりけり。
Philosophers
Shinran
Founder of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism (1173-1263). After twenty years on Mt Hiei he joined Honen's nembutsu movement at thirty-five. Exiled in 1207, he became neither monk nor layman, married, and taught absolute other-power.
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