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Tannishō (A Record in Lament of Divergences)
歎異抄
A short book of eighteen chapters with preface and epilogue, the most read text of the tradition. It contains the most famous sayings attributed to Shinran: "if even a good person attains birth, how much more the evil person!", that he has not a single disciple, that he never recited the nembutsu for his parents, or that the Vow, properly considered, was "for me, Shinran, alone". Popularised from the Meiji era, it influenced 20th-century Japanese philosophers and writers.
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Authorship note
Not by Shinran: it was compiled, some twenty-five years after his death, by his disciple Yuien (1222–1289), identified as author by modern scholarship. The first ten chapters record sayings of the master that Yuien says he heard; the following ones, his criticism of deviations. The oldest manuscript is a copy by Rennyo, who restricted its reading.
Editions and translations
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English
Shinran
A Record in Lament of Divergences
The Conscious LibraryA Record in Lament of Divergences
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.
Tannishō: Passages Deploring Deviations of Faith
Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 1996
Translation: Bandō Shōjun; Harold Stewart
ISBN 9781886439030
Con las Cartas de Rennyo.
Shinran
Tannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic
The Conscious LibraryTannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic
Buddhist Study Center Press, 1984
Translation: Taitetsu Unno
ISBN 9780938474043
Ed. revisada 1996.
Tannisho
Buddhist Study Center, 1981
Translation: Alfred Bloom
ISBN 9780938474005
Shinran
The Tannisho (Tract on Deploring the Heterodoxies)
The Conscious LibraryThe Tannisho (Tract on Deploring the Heterodoxies)
The Eastern Buddhist Society, 1928
Translation: Tosui Imadate
Dominio público; ejemplar digitalizado en Internet Archive.
日本語
Shinran
歎異抄 (意訳聖典)
The Conscious Library歎異抄 (意訳聖典)
Honganji / Naigai shuppan (Iyaku seiten) / Wikisource, 1923
Translation: Honganji (versión en japonés moderno)
Dominio público; transcripción en curso (calidad 50 %).
Français
Shinran
Le Tannishô
The Conscious LibraryLe Tannishô
Cerf, 2011
Translation: Jérôme Ducor
ISBN 9782204093781
Junto con otros cuatro textos de la tradición.
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. 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
Sources
- Unno, Taitetsu (trad.). Tannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic. Honolulu: Buddhist Study Center Press, 1984 (ed. rev. 1996). ISBN 9780938474043.
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