Shinran
Shōshinge (Hymn of True Shinjin and the Nembutsu)
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Shōshinge (Hymn of True Shinjin and the Nembutsu)
正信念仏偈
Sixty seven-character verses (120 lines) summarising Jōdo Shinshū doctrine: they praise Amida and his Vow and celebrate the teaching of the seven patriarchs of India, China and Japan. Since Rennyo in the 15th century it has been the text recited daily by the school's followers.
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Authorship note
Shinran's hymn in Chinese, included at the end of the Chapter on Practice of the Kyōgyōshinshō.
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Shinran
正信念仏偈
The Conscious Library正信念仏偈
Wikisource
Texto original con nota sobre la variante del autógrafo de Bandō.
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- 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
- 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
- «正信念仏偈», texto original de Shinran (final del capítulo de la Práctica del Kyōgyōshinshō), en Wikisource japonés, con nota sobre la variante del manuscrito autógrafo de Bandō.
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