Contents
- The dharma body's light
Amida has passed through ten kalpas now
Since realising Buddhahood;
Dharma-body’s wheel of light is without bound,
Shining on the blind and ignorant of the world.
(Hymns of the Pure Land)
- Dharma talk at Hongwanji Buddhist Mission of Australia - Obon 2012
Attainment of Buddhahood through the nembutsu is the true essence of the teaching. [Kyogyosho Monrui, II: 35]
- Shinran Shonin
Shinran Shonin was a Buddhist thinker, whose life spanned the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Kyo Gyo Shin Sho was his principal work.
- The Kyo Gyo Shin Sho as a sacred text
It is often said that the Kyo Gyo Shin Sho is a doctrinal treatise. Indeed, that is how it has usually been classified. But I think it is more than that.
- The parable of the Two Rivers and the White Path
This story, written by the Chinese Pure Land sage Shan-tao (613-681), is an allegory about the life of nembutsu.
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- The Noble Truth of suffering
The parable of The Two Rivers and the White Path opens with a description of the river of water and the river of fire, which cannot be traversed except by way of a narrow white path.
- A great generation
This is a tribute to several remarkable Shin Buddhists who lived in the early twentieth century, among them the first person to translate the Kyo Gyo Shin Sho into English.
- A Standard of Shinshu Faith by Ryosetsu Fujiwara.
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