Abstract: This chapter looks at Gynen's perspective on Pure Land Buddhism and may be read as a summary of the contents of the Genrush itself. After an introduction, the chapter has four sections. The first two discuss the history of the Pure Land Teaching, and Hnen's disciples. Next, the absence from the Genrush of four men influential in the Pure Land movement of the time (Shinran, Genchi, Ippen, and Seikaku) is addressed, and Shinran is selected as an example for further discussion of the reasons for omission. The last section discusses the perspective taken by Gynen to the Japanese Pure Land school in the Genrush.

Keywords: Buddhism, Buddhist history, Genrush, Gynen, Hnen, Japan, Pure Land school of Buddhism, Shinran,