Author Archives: Wamae
Notes on Shohaku Okumura’s ‘Realizing Genjokoan’ (W2)
This will be just a brief note, focusing on choices in translation. My advisor has been working on “Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook” – which I think will be a great resource for anyone interested in Japanese thought (then again, I am biased..) which includes his own translation of Genjōkoan. I cannot reproduce it in its entirety, [...]
Notes on Shohaku Okumura’s ‘Realizing Genjokoan’ (W1)
I mentioned in a comment to Kyōshin’s first post that ‘Realizing Genjokoan‘ suffers from a lack of clarity as to its audience. Thinking about the issue a little further, I think the issue has to do with the framing of Okumura’s commentary in such a way as to jibe with what might be roughly characterized [...]
A Yogacara View of the Pure Land (Part 2)
(This is a continuation of my rough translation of the essay “On the Background to the Five Kalpas of Thought” by Soga Ryojin. Part 1 can be found here) In the latter half of the article, Soga begins to unpack the notion that, “the summoning command of the Tathagata’s root Vow must truly be the [...]
A Yogacara View of the Pure Land (Part 1)
When it comes to conceptualizations of the Pure Land, the Yogacara viewpoint has sometimes been construed as antagonistic towards Jōdo Shinshū. Yet, as Kyōshin has pointed out, this is not necessarily the case; both from a historical standpoint, and, as I’d like to examine in this post, from a doctrinal standpoint. To do so I’d [...]
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