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Genshin
源信 zh
Japanese Buddhist monk
- Dated 942 CE – 12 July 1017 CE
- Also called Eshin
Overview
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Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Studied under 1
Genshin Japanese Buddhist monk What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Connections
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