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Soga Ryojin – “bringing to life myriad buddhas everywhere”
A while ago Wamae kindly drew our attention to the great resource that is Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook published by the University of Hawaii Press. After a long wait mine finally arrived last week and I’ve just started to dip into it. One great delight has been finding some new translations of work by my [...]
Sincere Mind
Sorry it has been so quiet around here. The last 3 weeks have been very busy with some big projects at work, beginning my MA course, and also attending and speaking at a retreat over the past weekend. Unsurprisingly, having worn myself out, I’ve now come down with a cold and am feeling rather sorry [...]
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 [...]
Amida in light of Luc Ferry’s account of ‘Transcendence’
Below are the rest of the notes that I said I would post on Luc Ferry’s critique of amor fati. These may seem rather abstruse so let me try to explain why Luc Ferry’s thought interests me. In the past I have written on this blog about potential problems that arise with regards to Jōdo Shinshū doctrine if we [...]
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