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Pure Land Buddhist View of Duhkha |
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Takeda, Ryusei
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| Source |
Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies
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| Volume | n.3 Third Series |
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| Date | 2001 |
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| Pages | 177 - 198 |
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| Publisher | Institute of Buddhist Studies |
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http://www.shin-ibs.edu/
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| Location | Berkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | 1. On Contemporary Shin Buddhist Thought
2. Author Affiliations: Ryūkoku University, Kyoto |
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| Keyword | 佛教人物=Buddhist; 淨土=Pure Land; Pure Land=淨土; Sukhavati=極樂世界; Duhkha=Dukkha=苦; Buddha Nature=佛性; Sukhavati-vyuha=無量壽經; Amida Buddha=Amitabha Buddha=阿彌陀佛; 菩提心=Bodhicitta; 慈悲心=Loving Kindness=Compassion |
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| Abstract | A comparison of the two notions, Buddhist and Christian, is beyond the scope of this paper, although I hope the essential difference—particularly in terms of the cause of duḥkha rather than in terms of the religious experience of duḥkha —will become clear through this discussion. I feel that ‘suffering’ as an equivalent for duḥkha is omitted not only because it is misleading, but further because of a great divergence between Christianity and Buddhism in their approaches to the reality of this world. Therefore, I shall try to use the Sanskrit term duḥkha as often as I can
This paper is constituted of four sections. Section One surveys the Buddhist realization of duḥkha . It shows how duḥkha has come to be taken as the intrinsic mode of human existence. Section Two treats the scriptural teaching of duḥkha expounded in the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra , which provides the foundational witness for the whole structure of Pure Land Buddhist salvation. In this section I will argue that, rather than the general Buddhist mode of Gautama’s teachings, which aims at the attainment of enlightenment through ‘self-power’, it is the Buddhist mode of the teaching of Amida, which leads us to enlightenment through Amida’s vowpower, namely, ‘other-power’, that has fathomed the depth of human duḥkha and carried the Buddhist doctrine of duḥkha to its ultimate development. Section Three focuses upon the bodhisattva’s compassionate practice of vicarious duḥkha , which is the ground upon which Amida’s salvation of all sentient beings is made possible. The concluding section clarifies the Pure Land Buddhist way to emancipation from duḥkha . I will argue here that it is the only way possible for all sentient beings to be able to attain nirvāṇa , the goal of Mahāyāna Buddhism. |
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| ISSN | 08973644 (E) |
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| Hits | 468 |
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| Created date | 2007.10.22 |
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| Modified date | 2021.02.03 |
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