Editing Shinran (section)

{{Short description|Japanese Buddhist monk}}
{{Infobox religious biography
|name = Shinran (親鸞)
|image= Shinran (Nara National Museum).jpg
|caption = Shinran ([[Important Cultural Properties of Japan|ICP]]) ([[Nara National Museum]])
|birth_name = Matsuwakamaro
|alias =
|dharma name =
|birth_date = May 21, 1173
|birth_place = [[Heian-kyō]], [[Yamashiro Province]] (now [[Kyoto, Japan]])
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1263|1|16|1173|5|13}}
|death_place = [[Heian-kyō]], Yamashiro Province
|nationality =
|religion = [[Buddhism]]
|school = {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Jōdo Shinshū]]|italic=no}} Buddhism
|lineage =
|title = Founder of {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Jōdo Shinshū]]|italic=no}} Buddhism
|location =
|education =
|occupation =
|teacher = [[Hōnen]]
|reincarnation of =
|predecessor =
|successor =
|students =
|spouse = [[Eshinni]]
|partner =
|children = [[Kakushinnhi]], [[Zenran]], others
|website =
}}

{{nihongo|'''Shinran'''|親鸞||May 21, 1173 – January 16, 1263}}<ref name="Esben">''Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion & Culture'' by Esben Andreasen, pp. 13, 14, 15, 17. [[University of Hawaiʻi Press]] 1998, {{ISBN|0-8248-2028-2}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080725120722/http://www.akshin.net/pureland/shinranlifework.htm The Life and Works of Shinran Shonin]</ref> was a [[Japanese Buddhist]] monk, who was born in Hino (now a part of [[Fushimi, Kyoto|Fushimi]], [[Kyoto]]) at the turbulent close of the [[Heian Period]] and lived during the [[Kamakura Period]]. Shinran was a pupil of [[Hōnen]] and the founder of what ultimately became the {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Jōdo Shinshū]]|italic=no}} sect of [[Japanese Buddhism]].