幸西教学と証空教学 - 教判理解を中心として (愛知学院大学における第五十九回[日本印度学仏教学会]学術大会紀要(2))=Pure Land Teachings of Kosai and Shoku: Focusing on Their Understanding of the Classification of Buddhist Doctrine
Among Hōnen’s disciples, Kōsai and Shōkū present opposing interpretations of Pure Land practices. Shōkū’s inclusive interpretation of Pure Land thought positively affirms the efficacies of non-Pure Land practices and Pure Land practices other than recitation of nembutsu. On the other hand, Kōsai presents an exclusive interpretation by maintaining that practices other than nembutsu recitation are fruitless in the present life and should be discarded. Kōsai and Shōkū, however, agree that the practitioners’ mind entrusting in Amida’s Other Power is the most essential doctrinal foundation of Pure Land thought. As a condition of his inclusive interpretation of Buddhist practices, Shōkū maintains that practitioners must entrust Amida’s Universal Vow by awakening to the three minds expounded in the Contemplation Sūtra. Kōsai’s emphasis on the singleness of nembutsu also presupposes practitioners’ entrusting in Amida’s wisdom and vow mind. The foundation of these two master’s understanding of Pure Land practices is rooted in Tanluan’s classification of Buddhist doctrine based on the concept of paths of difficult and easy practices in which he regards the entrusting mind as the primary cause of practitioners’ birth in the Pure Land. It is also noteworthy that both masters understand entrusting mind from the perspective of the non-duality and singleness of the sentient beings and the Buddha.
