Shinran
Kyōgyōshinshō (The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way)
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Kyōgyōshinshō (The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way)
顕浄土真実教行証文類
Shinran's major doctrinal work and the founding text of Jōdo Shinshū. In six chapters —Teaching, Practice, Shinjin, Realization, True Buddha and Land, Transformed Buddhas and Lands— it gathers and comments on hundreds of passages from sutras and the seven Pure Land patriarchs to show that everything, from practice to entrusting, is transferred by Amida. It includes the "Hymn of True Shinjin and the Nembutsu" (Shōshinge) and an autobiographical postscript.
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Authorship note
Shinran's work in classical Chinese. The school dates its first draft to 1224, in Kantō; by 1247 he allowed it to be copied, and he kept correcting it until his death. The autograph survives (Bandō copy, Higashi Honganji, National Treasure).
Editions and translations
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English
Shinran
Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho: The Collection of Passages Expounding the True Teaching, Living, Faith, and Realizing of the Pure Land
The Conscious LibraryShinran's Kyogyoshinsho: The Collection of Passages Expounding the True Teaching, Living, Faith, and Realizing of the Pure Land
Oxford University Press, 2012
Translation: Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
ISBN 9780199863105
1.ª ed. Kioto, Shinshū Ōtaniha, 1973.
Shinran
Kyōgyōshinshō: On Teaching, Practice, Faith, and Enlightenment
The Conscious LibraryKyōgyōshinshō: On Teaching, Practice, Faith, and Enlightenment
Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2003
Translation: Hisao Inagaki
ISBN 9781886439160
BDK English Tripiṭaka 105-I.
Shinran
Teaching, Practice, and Realization
The Conscious LibraryTeaching, Practice, and Realization
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.
Shinran
The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way (4 vols.)
The Conscious LibraryThe True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way (4 vols.)
Hongwanji International Center, 1983
Translation: Ueda Yoshifumi (dir.)
ISBN 9784938490065
Shin Buddhism Translation Series, 1983–1990.
Other works by Shinran
- 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. 5: Chapter on the True Buddha and Land · 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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