Shinran
Kyōgyōshinshō, ch. 5: Chapter on the True Buddha and Land
Written work
Kyōgyōshinshō, ch. 5: Chapter on the True Buddha and Land
顕浄土真実教行証文類 真仏土巻
Defines Amida as the Buddha of Immeasurable Light and Life and his land as a realm of infinite light, beyond every conceivable form, drawing on sutra passages including the Nirvana Sutra.
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Authorship note
Shinran's work in classical Chinese, composed as an annotated anthology of passages from sutras and treatises. The autograph Bandō copy (Higashi Honganji, National Treasure) shows revisions over decades.
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English
Shinran
Teaching, Practice, and Realization, Chapter on the True Buddha and Land
The Conscious LibraryTeaching, Practice, and Realization, Chapter on the True Buddha and Land
Jōdo Shinshū Hongwanji-ha (The Collected Works of Shinran, 1997), 1997
Translation: Dennis Hirota (dir.) y equipo
Traducción con derechos del Hongwanji; lectura gratuita en línea.
Other works by Shinran
- Kyōgyōshinshō (The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way) · 1247
- Kyōgyōshinshō, ch. 1: Chapter on Teaching · 1247
- Kyōgyōshinshō, ch. 2: Chapter on Practice · 1247
- Kyōgyōshinshō, ch. 3: Chapter on Shinjin · 1247
- Kyōgyōshinshō, ch. 4: Chapter on Realization · 1247
- Kyōgyōshinshō, ch. 6: Chapter on Transformed Buddha-Bodies and Lands · 1247
- Shōshinge (Hymn of True Shinjin and the Nembutsu) · 1247
- Jōdo monrui jushō (Passages on the Pure Land Way) · 1251
- Gutokushō (Gutoku's Notes) · 1255
- Nyūshutsu nimon geju (Hymn of the Two Gateways of Entrance and Emergence) · 1256
- Jōdo sangyō ōjō monrui (Passages on the Types of Birth in the Three Pure Land Sutras) · 1255
- Songō shinzō meimon (Notes on the Inscriptions on Sacred Scrolls) · 1255
- Ichinen tanen mon'i (Notes on Once-calling and Many-calling) · 1257
- Yuishinshō mon'i (Notes on Essentials of Faith Alone) · 1250
- Nyorai nishu ekō mon (Passages on the Two Aspects of the Tathāgata's Directing of Virtue) · 1256
- Mida nyorai myōgō toku (The Virtue of the Name of Amida Tathāgata) · 1260
- Sanjō wasan (The Three Collections of Hymns) · 1258
- Jōdo wasan (Hymns of the Pure Land) · 1248
- Kōsō wasan (Hymns of the Pure Land Masters) · 1248
- Shōzōmatsu wasan (Hymns of the Dharma-Ages) · 1258
- Kōtaishi Shōtoku hōsan (Hymns in Praise of Prince Shōtoku) · 1255
- Dai Nihonkoku zokusan-ō Shōtoku taishi hōsan (Hymns to Prince Shōtoku, Ruler of Great Japan) · 1257
- Jinen hōni shō (On Jinen Hōni) · 1258
- Mattōshō (Lamp for the Latter Ages) · 1333
- Goshōsoku shū (A Collection of Letters) · 1260
- Letter Disowning Zenran · 1256
- Saihō shinanshō (Guide to the Western Land) · 1257
- Annotations on the Contemplation Sutra and the Amida Sutra · 1217
- Tannishō (A Record in Lament of Divergences) · 1288
Sources
- Hirota, Dennis (dir.) et al. (trads.). The Collected Works of Shinran. 2 vols. Kioto: Jōdo Shinshū Hongwanji-ha, 1997. Edición en línea del Hongwanji.
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