Honen founds Pure Land Buddhism in Japan
1175
A Tendai monk on Mount Hiei, after a crisis of confidence in his ability to achieve enlightenment, concluded that the only hope for ordinary people in a degenerate age was to chant the name of Amida Buddha. His Pure Land school would become the single most popular form of Japanese Buddhism.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.