The Ultimacy of Jodo Shinshu: Shinran's Response to Tendai
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Description: By Alfred Bloom as published in The Pure Land.
The Ultimacy of Jodo Shinshu: Shinran's Response to Tendai The Ultimacy of Jodo Shinshu: Shinran's Response to Tendai Vol. New series 10-11, 1994.12, pp. 28-55 p. 28 INTRODUCTION The topic of Jodo Shinshu as the ultimate teaching of the Great Vehicle is significant for illuminating aspects of Shinran's teaching which receive little direct attention because of their sectarian implications. Nevertheless, an understanding of the background which inspired Shinran to assert the ultimacy of the Pure Land path is essential in determining the relevance of his teaching for modern people. This essay moves on two levels. The context of the paper is the necessity for Shin Buddhism to address problems and issues of the contemporary age in which we live. I am using Shinran as an example of this response for his own time. The second aspect is the points of doctrine which indicate Shinran's effort to develop a comprehensive perspective on Pure Land Buddhism as a response to the current thought of his time, The paper assumes that Shinran was a person of his times, aware of its character. However, it is where he goes beyond the religious and perhaps social character of that age to advance his own understanding and to assist other contemporary seekers that his historical and religious significance lies. A meaningful theory of salvation for contemporary people must be comprehensive in speaking to the human condition and in offering a deep understanding of reality and religious experience. Hence, it is important to take full account of Shin- p. 29 ran's religious experience and his subsequent religious development and life-style which are reflected in his writings. Shinran's response to Tendai-Lotus teaching reveals the breadth and creativity of his thought and offers a good example of the way in which Shin Buddhism must confront trends in contemporary thought. Further, the presuppositions of contemporary interfaith dialogue requires clarifying one's own stance and seeing its relation to other alter
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