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By Mark L. Blum, Shin'ya Yasutomi

ISBN-10: 0195132750

ISBN-13: 9780195132755

Rennyo Shonin (1415-1499) is taken into account the "second founder" of Shin Buddhism. below his management, the Honganji department grew in dimension and tool, changing into a countrywide association with nice wealth and effect. Rennyo's luck lay in conveying an enticing non secular message whereas exerting powerful administrative regulate. A savvy baby-kisser in addition to spiritual chief, ennyo performed an important position in political, monetary, and institutional advancements. even though he's undeniably the most influential folks within the heritage of jap faith, his legacy continues to be enigmatic and mostly neglected through the West. This quantity bargains an evaluate of Rennyo's contribution to Buddhist inspiration and the Honganji spiritual association. a suite of sixteen formerly unpublished essays by means of either jap and non-Japanese students within the parts of ancient experiences, Shinshu experiences, and comparative faith, it's the first e-book to confront a number of the significant questions surrounding the exceptional progress of Honganji below Rennyo's management. The authors study such issues because the resource of Rennyo's air of secrecy, the soteriological implications of his inspiration opposed to the heritage of different pursuits in natural Land Buddhism, and the connection among his rules and the expansion of his church. This assortment is a vital first step in bringing this crucial determine to an viewers open air Japan. it is going to be of vital curiosity to students within the fields of jap faith, jap social background, comparative faith, and the sociology of faith.

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608. 18 Ibid. 567. 543. 20 Honganji saho¯ no shidai 172, RSG, 237. 379–407. , 379. 549. 66–67. 385. 9–45. 28 Hosokawa Gyo¯shin, “Shinshu¯ chu¯ko¯ no shigan: tokuni Rennyo no Honganji saiko¯ ¯ tani ni tsuite” (The wish to restore Shinshu¯: On Rennyo’s reestablishing of Honganji), O gakuho¯ 48–3 (January 1969), 6. 573–574; RSG 97. 611. 665–669. 668 33 See Sasaki Yoshio, Rennyo Sho¯nin-den no kenkyu¯ (Kyoto: Chu¯gai Shuppan, 1926), 66–68; Tanishita Kazumu, “Rennyo Sho¯nin no Yoshizaki senkyo¯ ni tsuite,” Rekishi Chiri 62–4 (1933), 313–328; and Minamoto Ryo¯en, Rennyo (Tokyo: Ko¯dansha, 1993), 178.

Their names are Nyoryo¯ 如了 (d. 1455), Renyu¯ 蓮祐 (d. 1470), Nyosho¯ 如勝 (1448–1478), Shu¯nyo 宗如 (d. 1484), and Renno¯ 蓮能 (1465–1518). 6 The Ku¯zenki, compiled by Rennyo’s disciple Ku¯zen 空善 (d. 1520) sometime in the early sixteenth century, contains a somewhat hagiographic record of Rennyo’s activities over an eleven-year period at the end of his life, including his funeral. 7 Honpukuji yuraiki, “A Record of Hompukuji’s History,” Shusei, p. 661. 8 Inoue Toshio, “Honganji” (Tokyo: Shibundo, 1966) 102, 149.

Kanaho¯go are collections of “Dharma messages” (ho¯go), usually written on a single sheet of paper, in which Buddhist teachers concisely explain lofty doctrinal principles in colloquial Japanese; they are written in the mixed kana and kanji scripts, which are more easily understood by the common people than the Chinese-syntax kanbun, which are written for the professional clergy. Shinran wrote quite a few such Dharma messages in letters (sho¯soku) to his followers in the eastern provinces after he returned to Kyoto.

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