Honen The Buddhist Saint Essential Writings and Official Biography,9781933316130

Honen The Buddhist Saint Essential Writings and Official Biography

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ISBN13: 9781933316130
ISBN10: 1933316136
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Pub. Date: 2006-06-22
Publisher(s): World Wisdom
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Summary

Honen Shonin (1133-1212 A.D.) founded the largest Buddhist sect in Japan (Pure Land, or Shin). This edited biography contains an Introduction by renowned Buddhist scholar, Alfred Bloom.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD by Clark Strand xiii
PREFACE by Joseph A. Fitzgerald xvii
INTRODUCTION by Alfred Bloom xxiii
EXCERPTS FROM INTRODUCTIONS BY THE TRANSLATORS xli
EXCERPTS FROM 14TH CENTURY FOREWORD xlvii
I. HONEN'S BIOGRAPHY: EARLY YEARS UP TO FOUNDING OF THE JODO SECT
1. HONEN'S CHILDHOOD
Honen's Birth
3(1)
Mysterious Omens
3(1)
His Childhood Name
4(1)
His Family History
5(1)
Tokikuni's Fate
5(1)
Tokikuni's Dying Request
5(2)
2. HONEN'S BOYHOOD
Kwangaku Tokugo
7(1)
The Country No Place for Such a Boy
7(1)
His Parting Words to His Mother
8(1)
The Mother's Tears of Grief
9(1)
The Letter of Introduction
9(1)
The Boy Meets the Regent Tadamichi
10(1)
3. HIS STUDIES ON MOUNT HIEI
His Ascent of the Mountain
11(1)
He Studies the Shikyogi under Genkeo
11(1)
The Boy Becomes a Disciple of Koen
12(1)
His Ordination to the Priesthood
12(1)
His Early Desire for the Life of Retirement
12(1)
The Young Priest's Profound Insight
13(2)
4. HONEN, THE ADMIRATION OF SCHOLARS
His Grasp of the Scriptures
15(1)
Admiration of Scholars
15(1)
Honen's Discussion with Eiku on the Essence of the Precepts
15(1)
An Earnest Seeker of Salvation
16(1)
His Interview with Zoshun, the Famous Hosso Scholar
16(1)
His Interview with Kwanga, the Famous Sanron Scholar
17(1)
Honen on the Doctrinal Classification of the Sects
18(1)
Honen's Criticism of Narrow Sectarianism
18(1)
5. HONEN, THE FOUNDER OF THE JODO SECT
Honen's Discovery in the Scriptures
19(1)
This Leads to the Founding of the Sect
20(1)
Meditation Compared with the Nembutsu
20(1)
Honen's Homes
21(1)
Honen's Search for Salvation
21(2)
Honen's Reason for Founding a Sect
23(1)
Honen's Doctrine a Message to His Age
24(1)
His Unceasing Practice of the Nembutsu
25(4)
II. Honen's TEACHING ON THE WAY OF JODO
6. THINGS HONEN WAS ALWAYS SAYING (PART I)
The Need of Oral Teaching
29(1)
Simple Invocation of the Name
29(1)
"Save me Amida Buddha!"
29(1)
The Vilest May be Saved
30(1)
Faith and Works Go Hand in Hand
31(1)
Invoke with Heart and Voice Together
31(1)
Nembutsu the Main Thing
31(1)
It Means Hating the World
31(1)
Its Peculiarity Is No Peculiarity
31(1)
At Meal Time Too
31(1)
Nembutsu and the Nature of Things
32(1)
Amida's Great Vow
32(1)
Saves Even the Foolish Flonen
32(1)
The Danger of Learning
32(1)
Depend Only on the Nembutsu
32(1)
Shaka's Charge to Ananda
33(1)
The Failure of Meditation
33(1)
When Is Ojo Karma Complete?
33(1)
How to Embark on the Ship of the Original Vow
33(2)
Singleness of Purpose
35(1)
Intense Earnestness
35(1)
Believe You Have Already Received
35(1)
Certainty of Ojo
36(1)
To Jump Ten Feet, Jump Fifteen
36(1)
Whatever Befalls, Free from All Care
36(1)
If Only I Had but Attained
36(1)
Ojo Possible for Everyone
36(2)
Ojo Has Nothing to Do with Fish-eating
38(1)
In Your Devotion to Amida Despise Not Other Buddhas
38(1)
Antinomianism
38(1)
Jiriki, Self-Power, and Tariki, Other-Power, Defined
39(1)
Special Nembutsu Practice
39(1)
How to Get Ready for Death
40(1)
Keep Repeating the Nembutsu
40(1)
No Place for Pride
40(2)
7. THINGS HONEN WAS ALWAYS SAYING (PART II)
A Warning to Hypocrites
42(1)
Other Roads to Ojo Besides the Nembutsu
42(1)
Relation of the Karma of Prior States of Existence to Ojo
43(1)
How Hozo Biku Became Amida Buddha
44(2)
(a) The Meaning of Tariki Illustrated
45(1)
Repeat the Nembutsu Audibly
46(1)
Repeat the Nembutsu Even During Conversation
47(1)
The Escaped Prisoner and Amida's Wonderful Ship
47(1)
The Very Easiest Way to Ojo
48(1)
What if My Nature Is Bad?
49(1)
Honen's Gracious Instruction to Women
50(1)
Let Not Your Faith be Disturbed, Not Even by a Buddha
50(1)
A Religious Adviser at Death-bed
51(1)
Mental Composure in the Death Agony
51(1)
The Buddha's Welcome to Paradise
52(1)
No Form of Death Incompatible with the Nembutsu
53(1)
8. A CATECHISM
Ojo Attainable by Nembutsu Only
54(1)
Fix the Number of Repetitions
54(1)
Odors and Nembutsu
54(1)
Begin with Ten Thousand
54(1)
Use of the Sacred Cord
55(1)
The Merit of Fasting
55(1)
The Merit of Hearing Another's Nembutsu
55(1)
Can Never Fall from Paradise
55(1)
Poetry
56(1)
Sake
56(1)
Religious Adviser at Death-bed
56(1)
Evil Thoughts
56(1)
Rinsing the Mouth
56(1)
Leeks and Onions
56(1)
The Use of the Rosary
56(1)
Bodily Purification
57(1)
Reserve Merit
57(1)
Ignorant Priests
58(1)
9. HONEN ON THE THREE MENTAL STATES
The Meaning of the Three Mental States
59(1)
A Brief Summary of the Three Mental Attitudes
59(2)
(a) A "Most Sincere Heart"
59(1)
(b) A "Deep Believing Heart"
60(1)
(c) Zendö on a "Longing Heart"
60(1)
Sometimes Would Teach, Sometimes Not
61(1)
The Most Unlettered Are Capable of the "Three Mental States"
61(1)
The Nembutsu Includes All Duty
62(1)
10. GREAT LITERARY WORKS (PART I)
Main Principles of Honen's Senchakushu
63(5)
(a) The Ordinary Mahayana and Hinayana Standpoints
63(2)
(b) Honen's Counsel to Jodo Scholars
65(1)
(c) The Central Article in Amida's Original Vow
65(1)
(d) The Nembutsu the Best and Easiest Way to Salvation
66(1)
(e) The Conclusion of the Whole Matter
66(2)
11. GREAT LITERARY WORKS (PART II)
Jodo in Relation to Buddhism
68(9)
(a) The Joy of Being Born to Hear the Buddha's Teaching
68(1)
(b) The Buddhist View of Human Life
68(2)
(c) Shaka's All-Comprehensive Teaching
70(1)
(d) The Holy Path and Pure Land Ways of Salvation
71(1)
(e) Jodo Better Suited to Our Capacities
72(1)
(f) Never Revile the Buddhas' Laws, the Nembutsu One
73(1)
(g) Oje Is for All Alike
73(1)
(h) The Superiority of the Jcido
74(1)
(i) Nembutsu and Daily Living
75(2)
12. Honen's POEMS
Spring
77(1)
Summer
77(1)
Autumn
77(1)
Winter
78(1)
Sacrifice
78(1)
My Mountain Home
78(1)
Exclusive Practice
78(1)
Seek the Land of Bliss in Youth
79(1)
The Cicada
79(1)
Amida's Light
79(1)
The "Most Sincere Heart"
79(1)
Nembutsu
80(1)
The Pine of a Thousand Years
80(1)
The Little Pine
80(1)
The Heart of Man
80(1)
The Precious Memory of Old Friends
80(1)
The Glorious Vision of the Pure Land
81(4)
III. HONEN'S FOLLOWERS: LAY, CLERICAL, AND SAMURAI
13. THE IMPERIAL CONFIDENCE IN HONEN
The Emperor Takakura Taking the Vows
85(1)
The Emperor Go-Shirakawa's Regard for Honen
85(1)
Honen Declines Official Appointment
85(1)
The Emperor Go-Shirakawa's Happy Death
86(2)
14. HONEN'S CLERICAL FOLLOWERS
Prince Joe's Conversion and Happy Death
88(1)
Jogon's Doubts Dispelled
88(1)
Honen's Instruction to the Vicar-General
89(1)
Honen on the Awakening of Faith
90(1)
Honen's Dedication of the Temple Built by Munesada
91(3)
15. HONEN'S FOLLOWERS—LAY AND CLERICAL
Honen's Letter to the Dying Nun Shonyobo
94(2)
(a) Why He Could Not Visit Her
94(1)
(b) The Hope of Meeting Again in the Hereafter
94(1)
(c) Dependence upon the Buddha's Power the One and Only Condition of Ojo
95(1)
(d) His Promise to Pray for Her
95(1)
Awanosuke the Fortune Teller
96(1)
Kyo Amidabutsu, the Converted Robber
96(6)
(a) Honen on the Meaning of a Sincere Heart
97(1)
(b) Private Devotion
98(1)
(c) Undistracted by Outward Things
99(1)
(d) Two Types of Men
99(1)
(e) The True and the False
100(1)
(f) How and When to Practice the Nembutsu
100(1)
(g) The Robber's Ojo
101(1)
16. SAMURAI BELIEVERS
Taro Tadatsuna
102(1)
(a) His Ojo in Battle
103(1)
Jiro Naozane
103(2)
(a) Honen's Letter to Rensci
104(1)
Saburo Tamemori
105(6)
(a) Tamemori:s Wish to be a Priest
105(1)
(b) Another Short Letter from Honen
106(1)
(c) Songwan's Longing for Ojo Leads to His Harakiri
106
IV. HONEN'S BIOGRAPHY: HIS FINAL YEARS
17. PERSECUTED ON ALL SIDES
The Beginning of Opposition
111(1)
Solemn Pledge of Honen and His Disciples
112(1)
Honen's Letter to the Archbishop Shinshe
113(1)
Honen's Warning Against the "Once Calling" Heretics
114(1)
The Heretical Suffer Punishment
115(2)
18. HONEN SENTENCED TO EXILE
Anraku Beheaded
117(1)
Honen's Banishment to Tosa
118(1)
Honen Comforts His Disciples as He Leaves Them
119(2)
19. THE LONG LONELY JOURNEY
Honen Taking Leave of the Capital
121(1)
Poems of Farewell
121(1)
Humble Converts at Takasago
122(1)
The Harlot Converted
123(1)
20. HONEN'S LIFE IN EXILE
Honen's Welcome to Sanuki
124(1)
Honen's Labors at Komatsu
125(1)
Honen the Exile's Letter to Tamemori
125(1)
Honen's Visit to Kobo's Temple
126(1)
21. THE EMPEROR'S PARDON
The Decree of Release
127(1)
Honen's Stay in Kachiodera
127(1)
Permission to Return to the Capital
128(1)
His Welcome Home
129(1)
22. HONEN'S LAST HOURS
The End Approaching
130(1)
His Vision of the Holy Ones
131(1)
Happy Omens
132(1)
He Dies in Peace
132(2)
The Disciples Commemorate Him Contrary to His Dying Wishes
134(1)
Spread of the Nembutsu in Face of Imperial Edicts
134(1)
Honen's Parting Message
135(2)
GLOSSARY 137(3)
INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT FOREIGN TERMS 140(1)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 141

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