In Japan, Jodo-kyo (Jodo-shiso) was transmitted in around the first half of the seventh century, and Ennin (794-864) transmitted the way of nenbutsu-zanmai (nenbutsu samadhi, or mental absorption in the nenbutsu) of Mt. Wutai Shan in China to Mt. Hiei-zan in the first half of the ninth century.
日本では7世紀前半に浄土教（浄土思想）が伝えられ、9世紀前半には円仁（794年-864年）が中国五台山の念仏三昧法を比叡山に伝えた。