Refutation of “The Nembutsu Chosen above All,” A ［弾選択］ ( Dan-senchaku): A work written in 1225 by Jōshō, a priest of the Japanese Tendai school. It attacks Hōnen’s Nembutsu Chosen above All, which sets forth the doctrine of the exclusive practice of Nembutsu, or calling on the name of Amida Buddha. At Enryaku-ji temple, Jōshō was appointed an interpreter of the doctrines, whose function it was to elucidate and expand on subjects of discussion and answer questions from the other priests. One view assigns credit for A Refutation of “The Nembutsu Chosen above All” to Ryūshin, also a Tendai priest, though others hold this to be a misunderstanding arising from the fact that Ryūshin wrote a postscript to the work. Still another view holds that there were two works titled A Refutation of “The Nembutsu Chosen above All,” one by Jōshō and one by Ryūshin. In any event, Ryūkan, a disciple of Hōnen, challenged the content of this work in his Clarification of “The Nembutsu Chosen above All.”