#I know Nichiren and Jodo-Shu/Shinshu have more depth than that

[aerial-jace]

The Kamakura period is such a funny time in the history not only of Buddhism but of religion in general, if you think about it. When else do you get such whacky dudes such as "guy who preaches that all practices other than reciting a guy's name even just once are ineffective at breaking free from the cycle of reincarnation and is shocked, SHOCKED I tell you that people interpret that as permission to abandon all moral discipline" and "guy who thinks the reason so many natural disasters are happening is because people are reading the wrong books from his religion and to remedy that he teaches everyone to repeatedly chant the title of his favorite book in hopes that somehow this will impart the book's wisdom"?