廬山寺本『選択集』第八章における『観経疏』引文の問題について：「如炙頭燃」をめぐって=A Quotation from the Kangyō-sho 観経疏 in Chapter 8 of Rozanji’s Senchaku-shū 選択集:“As They would Brush Live Coals from Their Heads”
The manuscript of the Senchaku-shū preserved at Rozanji is regarded as a draft. In the eighth chapter of this manuscript, Hōnen quotes sentences from the Kangyō-sho. However, there are some missing parts, including the phrase “as they would brush live coals from their heads” (如炙頭燃). Kaneiwa Kazuhiro has inferred the reason for this to be that the Kangyō-sho which Hōnen possessed at the time he wrote the Senchaku-shū did not have those particular pages.
After examining various documents based on this inference, I have discovered a record implying that Hōnen indeed taught the missing part “as they would brush live coals from their heads”. This leads to the possibility that Hōnen was able to read the missing pages of Kangyō-sho at a certain point in his life, after the composition of the Senchaku-shū.
