Rennyo (蓮如)
Potret dari Rennyo, digambarkan saat Periode Muromachi
Kehidupan pribadi
Lahir	Hoteimaru (布袋丸) 1415 Kyoto, Jepang
Meninggal	1499 Osaka, Japan
Kebangsaan	Jepang
Nama lain	Kenju (兼寿)
Kehidupan religius
Agama	Buddhisme
Sekolah	Buddhisme Jodo Shinshu
Posisi senior
Pendahulu	Zonnyō

Rennyo (蓮如code: ja is deprecated , 1415–1499) adalah Monshu ke-8, atau imam ketua, dari Kuil Hongan-ji sekte Jōdo Shinshū Buddhisme, dan keturunan dari pendiri Shinran. Buddhis Jodo Shinshu sering disebut sebagai pemulih sekte (Chūkō no so (中興の祖code: ja is deprecated ) dalam bahasa Jepang). Ia juga dikenal sebagai Shinshō-in (信証院), dan secara anumerta sebagai Etō Daishi (慧灯大師).

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• Tanaka, Kenneth K., trans. Rennyo Shonin's Shoshinge Tai'i: The Main Import of Shoshinge. A Commentary on Shinran Shonin's Verses on True Shinjin
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