Special Issue on Contemporary Shin Buddhist Thought.
關鍵詞
佛教人物=Buddhist; 法然=Honen; Pure Land=淨土; Sukhavati=極樂世界; Pure Land School=淨土宗; Japanese Buddhist history=日本佛教史; Amida Buddha=Amitabha Buddha=阿彌陀佛
摘要
The paper examine the dabate in the early 13 century between Jokei (1555-1213) of the Hosso school and Honen (1133-1212)，founder of the Pure Land School in Japan. In many ways, the controversy epitomizes the fundamental doctrinal divide between the broader Buddhist tradition and particular regional forms that emerged in Japan，during and after the Kamakura period (1185-1333). Reader and Tanabe emphasize the pluralistic character of contemporary Japanese religion. Almost all temples feature a variety of auspicious images offering different practical and religious benefits, and this plurality is true of Pure Land temples as well. It is in this pluralistic respect，at least，that contemporary Japanese religion is so fundamentally confluent with pre-modem Japanese religion. Some Pure Land proponents lament that their tradition has lost the truly radical nature of Honen and Shinran's vision. What these scholars see as lost，namely the radically exclusive claims of Honen and Shinran，are the very elements that differentiated them so much from established figures like Jokei.
