Shinran's Kyōgyōshinshō : the collection of passages expounding the true teaching, living, faith, and realizing of the Pure Land / translated by Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki ; edited by The Center for Shin Buddhist Studies under the supervision of Sengaku Mayeda ; Shinshū Ōtani-Ha, Higashi Honganji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shinran, 1173-1263.

Contributor:

Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, 1870-1966, translator.

Standardized Title:

Kyōgyō shinshō. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Shin (Sect)--Doctrines.

Shin (Sect).

Physical Description:

xxii, 310 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

"This annotated translation by Daisetz Suzuki (1870-1966) comprises the first four of six chapters of the Kyogyoshinsho, the definitive doctrinal work of Shinran (1173-1262). Shinran founded the Jodo Shin sect of Pure Land Buddhism, now the largest religious organization in Japan. Writing in Classical Chinese, Shinran began this, his magnum opus, while in exile and spent the better part of thirty years after his return to Kyoto revising the text. Although unfinished, Suzuki's translation conveys the text's core religious message, showing how Shinran offered a new understanding of faith through studying teachings before engaging in praxis, rather than the more common and far more limited view of faith in Buddhism as relevant to one just beginning their pursuit of Buddhist truth. Although Suzuki is best known for his scholarship on Zen Buddhism, he took a lifelong interest in Pure Land Buddhism. Suzuki's own religious perspective is evident in his translation of gyo as ''True Living'' rather than the expected ''Practice,'' and of sho as ''True Realizing of the Pure Land'' rather than the expected ''Enlightenment'' or ''Confirmation.'' This book contains the second edition of Suzuki's translation. It includes a number of corrections to the original 1973 edition, long out of print, as well as Suzuki's unfinished preface in its original form for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.

"This annotated translation by Daisetz Suzuki (1870-1966) comprises the first four of six chapters of the Kyogyoshinsho, the definitive doctrinal work of Shinran (1173-1262). Shinran founded the Jodo Shin sect of Pure Land Buddhism, now the largest religious organization in Japan"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

List of Illustrations

Editorial Foreword by Sengaku Mayeda, Supervisor

Chronology

Introduction to the D.T. Suzuki Translation of Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho by Mark L. Blum, Editor

Translator's Introduction

The Forty-Eight Prayers

''Bodhi-tree''

The Prayers Summarized (Jusei-ge)

Vasubandhu's Gatha on a Birth [in the Pure Land] (Gansho-ge)

The Kyogyoshinsho by D.T. Suzuki

Preface

[I] The True Teaching

[II] The True Living

[III] The True Faith

Part One

Part Two

[IV] The True Realizing

Afterword by Hiroyuki Honda, Editor

Notes & Sources of Quotations

Glossary

Selected Bibliography on Shin Buddhism in Western Languages

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199863105

0199863105

OCLC:

758391845