for the independent Pure Land movements of the subsequent Kamakura period (1185–1333). Ennin also founded the temple of Ryushakuji at Yamadera. Literary work He wrote more than one hundred books. His diary of travels in China, , was translated into English by Professor Edwin O. Reischauer under the title Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law. Sometimes ranked among the best travelogues in world literature, it is a key source of information on life in Tang China and Silla Korea and offers a rare glimpse of the Silla personality Jang Bogo. References Sources Edwin O. Reischauer, Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law (New York: Ronald Press, 1955). Edwin O. Reischauer, Ennin's Travels in T'ang China (New York: Ronald Press, 1955). External links Retracing the steps of Ennin, a travelog of a partial retracing of Ennin's journey made in 2006, with photographs. 790s births 864 deaths Japanese scholars of Buddhism Japanese Buddhist clergy Tendai Buddhist monks People of Heian-period Japan People of Nara-period Japan Japanese ambassadors to the Tang dynasty Heian period Buddhist clergy