Hōnen’s Senchakushū: Passages on the Selection of the Nembutsu in the Original Vow

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Hōnen’s Senchakushū

Passages on the Selection of the Nembutsu in the Original Vow

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1998

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Religion, Bible and Theology Religious Studies Buddhism

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Director's Foreword
VII

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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Passages That Relate How the Dhyana Master Tao-ch'o, Setting Up the Two Gateways, the Holy Path and the Pure Land, Discarded the Holy Path and Took Refuge in the Pure Land Teaching
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2. Passages That Relate How Master Shan-tao Set Up the Two Kinds of Practice, the "Right" and the "Miscellaneous," Rejecting the Miscellaneous and Taking Refuge in the Right
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3. Passages Concerning the Tathagata Amida's Original Vow, Which Promises Birth Not for Other Practices But for the Nembutsu Alone
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4. Passages Relating How All Three Classes of People Can Be Born through the Nembutsu
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5. Passages on the Benefit of the Nembutsu
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6 . Passages Relating That the Nembutsu Alone Will Remain [in the World] after the Ten Thousand Years of the Age of the Final Dharma, When All of the Other Practices Have Disappeared
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7. Passages Relating That the Light of Amida Does Not Illuminate Those Who Engage in the Other Practices, but Embraces Only Those Who Practice the Nembutsu
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8. Passages That Show That Those Who Practice the Nembutsu Should Certainly Possess the Three Kinds of Mind
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9. Passages Relating How Practitioners Should Practice the Four Cultivations
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10. Passages [Teaching That When] the Buddha Amida Comes to Welcome [the Nembutsu Practitioners] in His Transformation Body; He Does Not Praise Good Practices Such As Hearing the Names of the Sutras, but Praises Only the Nembutsu
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11. Passages That Praise the Nembutsu in Contrast to the Many Miscellaneous Practices
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12. Passages That Relate That [in the Kuan wu-liangshou chingj Sakyamuni Did Not Entrust to Ananda the Various Contemplative and Noncontemplative Practices, but Entrusted to Him the Nembutsu Alone
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13. Passages Attesting That the Nembutsu Plants Many Good Roots, While the Miscellaneous Practices Plant But Few
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14. Passages Attesting That the Many Buddhas of the Six Directions, As Numerous As the Sands of the Ganges, Do Not Bear Witness to the Other Practices, But Only to the Nembutsu
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15. Passages Relating How All the Buddhas of the Six Directions Protect the Nembutsu Practitioner
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16. Passages Relating How the Tathagata Sakyamuni Kindly Entrusted the Name of [A]mida to Sariputra and Other Disciples
145

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Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Glossary
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Notes
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Glossary
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Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources
217

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Japanese Proper Names
231

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Chinese Proper Names
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Select Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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Hōnen’s Senchakushū

Overview

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Director's Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Passages That Relate How the Dhyana Master Tao-ch'o, Setting Up the Two Gateways, the Holy Path and the Pure Land, Discarded the Holy Path and Took Refuge in the Pure Land Teaching

2. Passages That Relate How Master Shan-tao Set Up the Two Kinds of Practice, the "Right" and the "Miscellaneous," Rejecting the Miscellaneous and Taking Refuge in the Right

3. Passages Concerning the Tathagata Amida's Original Vow, Which Promises Birth Not for Other Practices But for the Nembutsu Alone

4. Passages Relating How All Three Classes of People Can Be Born through the Nembutsu

5. Passages on the Benefit of the Nembutsu

6 . Passages Relating That the Nembutsu Alone Will Remain [in the World] after the Ten Thousand Years of the Age of the Final Dharma, When All of the Other Practices Have Disappeared

7. Passages Relating That the Light of Amida Does Not Illuminate Those Who Engage in the Other Practices, but Embraces Only Those Who Practice the Nembutsu

8. Passages That Show That Those Who Practice the Nembutsu Should Certainly Possess the Three Kinds of Mind

9. Passages Relating How Practitioners Should Practice the Four Cultivations

10. Passages [Teaching That When] the Buddha Amida Comes to Welcome [the Nembutsu Practitioners] in His Transformation Body; He Does Not Praise Good Practices Such As Hearing the Names of the Sutras, but Praises Only the Nembutsu

11. Passages That Praise the Nembutsu in Contrast to the Many Miscellaneous Practices

12. Passages That Relate That [in the Kuan wu-liangshou chingj Sakyamuni Did Not Entrust to Ananda the Various Contemplative and Noncontemplative Practices, but Entrusted to Him the Nembutsu Alone

13. Passages Attesting That the Nembutsu Plants Many Good Roots, While the Miscellaneous Practices Plant But Few

14. Passages Attesting That the Many Buddhas of the Six Directions, As Numerous As the Sands of the Ganges, Do Not Bear Witness to the Other Practices, But Only to the Nembutsu

15. Passages Relating How All the Buddhas of the Six Directions Protect the Nembutsu Practitioner

16. Passages Relating How the Tathagata Sakyamuni Kindly Entrusted the Name of [A]mida to Sariputra and Other Disciples

Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Glossary

Notes

Glossary

Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources

Japanese Proper Names

Chinese Proper Names

Select Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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