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| Birthday |
30th November, 1713
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| Died |
1759
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Ensetsu (圓説, 1714–1759) was a Japanese Buddhist monk active during the mid-Edo period. He was the founder of the Mokugyo Nenbutsu practice and centered his activities in Kyoto and Osaka. He walked throughout Kyoto city, regardless of wind or rain, heat or cold, carrying a wooden fish drum over his shoulder and chanting the nembutsu as he struck it. At an event labelled the Hōdenji Lecture, it is said he instructed as many as fifteen thousand people in daily chanting. He rebuilt Hōdenji Temple (a temple commissioned by Emperor Shōmu and founded by Priest Gyōki) in Fushimi, Kyoto, and also established Kōgetsuan in Fushimi, opening a chanting hall to preach the Buddhist Dharma.
