Hōnen's <i>Senchakushū</i>: 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

Translated by: Senchakushū English Translation Project

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1998

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Volume 6 | Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism

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Theology and Religion Religious Studies Buddhism

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Director's Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	56
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
3. Passages Concerning the Tathagata Amida's Original Vow, Which Promises Birth Not for Other Practices But for the Nembutsu Alone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	72
4. Passages Relating How All Three Classes of People Can Be Born through the Nembutsu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
5. Passages on the Benefit of the Nembutsu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	92
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	96
8. Passages That Show That Those Who Practice the Nembutsu Should Certainly Possess the Three Kinds of Mind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
9. Passages Relating How Practitioners Should Practice the Four Cultivations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	118
11. Passages That Praise the Nembutsu in Contrast to the Many Miscellaneous Practices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	120
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	126
13. Passages Attesting That the Nembutsu Plants Many Good Roots, While the Miscellaneous Practices Plant But Few Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
15. Passages Relating How All the Buddhas of the Six Directions Protect the Nembutsu Practitioner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
16. Passages Relating How the Tathagata Sakyamuni Kindly Entrusted the Name of [A]mida to Sariputra and Other Disciples Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	154
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
Japanese Proper Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
Chinese Proper Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269

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9780824844882

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