Career
He lived in a hut alongside the post station at Kako in the province of Harima, and worked for a living. At the same time, he spent his lifetime invoking Amida’s name, and as a result came to be called Amidamaru.
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Kyoshin KYOSHIN
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In later centuries, however, when Pure Land Buddhism, which advocates the practice of nembutsu, gained prominence, and when the temples and clergy of organized Buddhism became marred by corruption, Kyoshin came to be revered as the ideal of the lay Buddhist believer who remains in the everyday world but devotes his life to religious practice. As such, he was regarded with particular respect by such later Japanese Buddhist leaders as Eikan, Shinran, and Ippen.
Personality
It is said that when he was on the point of death, he made his way by means of spiritual powers to the temple of Kachio-dera in Settsu, where he appeared before the priest Shonyo (781-867) and announced that he would be reborn in the Western Paradise of Amida. He is clearly a semilegendary figure at best.
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He had a wife and family.
