Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-35448581-20160502192848/@comment-734582-20160514112046

I got a chance to read the Fourth Databook and by what it suggests, the Rinnegan isn't much of a Dojutsu either.

for example:
 * Deva path: Push/pull is done by the hands (so not an eye technique)
 * Ashura: Summons advanced tools and weapons (so not an eye technique).
 * Human path: read mind via touch (so not an eye technique)
 * Animal path: summon animals to deal with mobility problems
 * Preta path: not listed, but works through touch both times
 * Naraka path: "beckons" the King of Hell, which does the soul ripping etc, which makes all of this not the Rinnegan's power.

So basically, none of the Six Paths are actual RINNEGAN powers.

It also mentions some things, e.g. Animal Path is to deal with Mobility problems suggesting that Nagato invented the jutsu. WHich isn't weird considering we saw that Obito's hideout had a skeletal creature. With Naraka he can take whatever dead creature he finds, restore it's body and then use the Rods to puppeteer it.

Furthermore, Asura Path was manifested in a Pupeteer, suggesting Nagato simply copied his techniques.

It raises the question of what actual Rinnegan powers are, and the only Dojutsu powers are that it can easily understand any jutsu (and part of a jutsu e.g. nature transformation) and that it can see chakra.

Everything else seems to be purely the manifestation of Six Paths power (black rods, control over chakra, access to the Death Realm, summoning without blood) since none of them use the actual eyes to work (unlike e.g. Mangekyou powers)

In that respect, what makes the Tenseigan different? It seems to have some visual powers (presumably Byakugan-like), but the Rinnegan seems to grant only enhanced Sharingan powers. Would that mean that the Tenseigan grants only enhanced Byakugan powers, as well as Rinnegan-like powers (easy understanding of shape and nature transformation e.g the TSB techniques) as truly Dojutsu powers, the rest simply being Six Paths power?