thumb|Kakuban sculpture (Mitsugon-dō), Oku-no-in, Kōya-san thumb|Mausoleum of Kakuban in Negoro-ji Kakuban (覚鑁/覺鑁; 1095–1143), known posthumously as Kōgyō-Daishi (興教大師) was a priest of the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan and credited as a reformer, though his efforts also led to a schism between and . Kakuban is also famous for his introduction of the "esoteric nembutsu".
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thumb|Kakuban sculpture (Mitsugon-dō), Oku-no-in, Kōya-san thumb|Mausoleum of Kakuban in Negoro-ji Kakuban (覚鑁/覺鑁; 1095–1143), known posthumously as Kōgyō-Daishi (興教大師) was a priest of the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan and credited as a reformer, though his efforts also led to a schism between and . Kakuban is also famous for his introduction of the "esoteric nembutsu".
==Biography== Kakuban was born in Fujitsu-no-shō (Hizen Province, nowadays part of Kashima City, Saga Prefecture) about three hundred years after Shingon Buddhism was first founded by Kūkai (空海). His given name was Yachitose-maro (弥千歳麿).
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