Shinran
Yuishinshō mon'i (Notes on Essentials of Faith Alone)
Written work
Yuishinshō mon'i (Notes on Essentials of Faith Alone)
唯信鈔文意
Explains in simple Japanese the Chinese passages cited by Seikaku, with famous definitions of terms such as jinen ("naturally so") or ōjō ("birth"). At the end he states he wrote it for country people who do not know the meaning of the characters.
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Authorship note
Shinran's Japanese work (1250, revised 1257), a commentary on the Yuishinshō by his fellow disciple Seikaku, which Shinran copied and distributed several times.
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English
Shinran
Notes on Essentials of Faith Alone
The Conscious LibraryNotes on Essentials of Faith Alone
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. 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
- 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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