Sand Craft at Entrance of Honen-yin, Kyoto, Japan

Honen - Reformist of Buddhism Japan some 800 years ago One of my favourite places in Kyoto Sand Craft at Entrance of Honen-yin Honen was a reformist of Buddhism Japansome 800 years ago.  Yin means house in Japanese. Here Higashiyama at eastern  Kyoto area, Honen and his disciples strived hard for reformist of Buddhism in the Middle Ages of Japan some 800 years ago. Honen realized that  Nenbutsu, the recitation of Buddha Amitabha's name, was the only way to Jodo, the Pure Land of Buddhism. He was exiled by the establishment but finally returned to Kyoto a few months before his death 1212.