Shinshō
Male, Deceased Person
0797 – 0873
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Who was Shinshō?
Shinshō was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Shingon sect and founder of the Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji in Heian-kyō.
He studied Vajrayana - or Esoteric - buddhism under Kūkai at the Tō-ji and became the third master of Shingon in 843. Rising to a higher position in the Tō-ji in 847, he then founded the Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji in 853.
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