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Minor Notes: Inouye Enryo on Faith and Reason
The wind changed direction today and the first swifts of the year started to arrive this evening (after wintering in Africa) which was a joyful occasion as always. They are a week later this year according to my partner’s diary. More will arrive over the coming weeks and they will stay until August. We also [...]
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 [...]
The Flower Opens in the Sheer Drop
Today whilst doing some research I stumbled on a piece of writing about my Dharma teacher’s friend and mentor Nishitani Keiji. The essay comes from a book by Notto R. Thelle sub-titled ‘Travels in the Borderland between East and West’: “When I asked Nishitani to sign one of his books, toward the end of his life, he [...]
Nembutsu and Meditation
I posted a link to this back in July but re-reading it recently I was really struck once again as to what an important essay it is for the future of Jōdo Shinshū and the Buddhist movement as a whole: Nenbutsu and Meditation: Problems with the Categories of Contemplation, Devotion, Meditation, and Faith – Lisa Grumbach (The Institute of Buddhist [...]
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