Name: Hônenbō (法然)
Birth/ Death: (1173-1263)
Appearance: Book 10 Episode 5
Bio:
A practitioner mostly known for founding the Jôdô Sect, otherwise known as the Pure Land sect*. He gives Shigehira the Buddhist precepts.
*The Pure Land sect of Buddhism follows the belief that we will never live in a world that is not corrupt, so we must strive for re-birth in another world - the "Pure Land.