Pure Land Buddhists

Japanese writer (1763-1828)

Chinese Hong Kong actor, film producer and singer

was a key Japanese Buddhist figure of the Kamakura Period who is regarded as the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū school of Japanese Buddhism. A pupil of Hōnen, the founder of the Japanese Pure Land movement, Shinran articulated a distinctive Pure Land vision that emphasized faith and absolute reliance on Amida Buddha’s other-power.

Japanese nobleman of the Heian period (966-1028)

1234/9–1289 was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher (hijiri) whose movement, the became one of the major currents of medieval Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.

thumb|right|250px|Statue of Kūya by Kōshō (sculptor)|Kōshō, son of [[Unkei, at , Kyoto, dating to the first decade of the thirteenth century and an Important Cultural Property. The six Chinese characters of the nembutsu, 南無阿弥陀仏 (na-mu-a-mi-da-butsu), are represented by six small figures of Amitābha streaming from Kūya's mouth. He walks as if on a pilgrimage, holding a staff topped with an antler and striking a gong. Similar statues, all of the Kamakura period and Important Cultural Properties, may be found at in Kyoto, in Ehime Prefecture and in Shiga Prefecture. There are a number of related

Shandao (; ; 613–681) was a Chinese Buddhist scholar monk and an influential figure of East Asian Pure Land Buddhism.

Japanese businessman and Buddhist priest (1889-1966)

Taiwanese monk (1927–2022)

Tanluan (, 476–554) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who wrote on Pure Land Buddhism.

Empress consort of Japan

Japanese novelist and Buddhist priest (1912–1976)

Japanese poet

Chinese Buddhist scholar monk

thumb|Traditional portrait of Patriarch Daochuo Daochuo (; J. Dōshaku, c. 562–645) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist master of Pure Land Buddhism. He was also known as Chan Master Xihe (Meditation Master of the West River).

Japanese Shin Buddhist reformer (1863–1903)

Japanese Buddhist priest and makeup artist