Godenshō

A classic biography of Jōdo Shinshū founder Shinran (1173-1262) composed by his great-grandson Kakunyo (1270-1351) and published in 1294 as part of a plan to consolidate the new school around the cult of its founder.

A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2003, 2004 (which is available in electronic version from answer.com)