Hōnen (法然code: ja is deprecated , 13 Mei 1133–29 Februari 1212
) adalah seorang reformator agama dan pendiri cabang independen pertama dari Buddha Tanah Murni yang disebut Jōdo-shū (浄土宗code: ja is deprecated , "Aliran Tanah Murni"). Ia juga dianggap merupakan Patriark Jōdo Shinshū Ketujuh.
Hônen: "Le gué vers la Terre Pure", Senchaku-shû, traduit du sino-japonais, présenté et annoté par Jérôme Ducor. Collection "Trésors du bouddhisme". Paris, Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2005. ISBN2-213-61738-4
Takahashi Koji. Senchakushu no seikaku ni tsuite: tokuni hi ronriteki ichimen o chushin to shite. in Jodokyo no shiso to bunka, Etani Festschrift (Kyoto: Dohosha, 1972)
Augustine, Morris J., Kondō, Tesshō, trans. (1997). "Senchaku hongan nembutsu shū": a collection of passages on the nembutsu chosen in the original vow compiled by Genkū (Hōnen), Berkeley, Calif.: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research. ISBN1-886439-05-2
Jokai Asai (2001). Exclusion and Salvation in Honen's Thought: Salvation of Those Who Commit the Five Grave Offenses or Slander the Right Dharma, Pacific World Journal, Third Series, Number 3, 125-156. Archived from the original
Sho-on Hattori, A Raft from the Other Shore: Honen and the Way of Pure Land Buddhism, Jodo Shu Press, Tōkyō, 2001, ISBN4883633292
Sōhō Machida, Renegade monk: Hōnen and Japanese Pure Land Buddhism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999, ISBN0520211790
Jonathan Watts, Yoshiharu Tomatsu, Traversing the Pure Land Path: A Lifetime of Encounters with Honen Shonin, Jodo Shu Press, Tōkyō, 2005, ISBN4-88363-342-X
