An Introduction to the Buddhist Canon: Japanese Works=大藏經入門 -- 日本撰述部
出版日期
1995
頁次
255
出版者
倡印社
出版地
香港, 中國 [Hong Kong, China]
資料類型
書評=Book Review
使用語言
中文=Chinese; 英文=English
附註項
Taisho No. 2527. Published in Taiwan by Charng Chuen Shuh (常春樹[Evergreen]): Shin-diann, Taipei, 1988, 231 pages. Compiled by Tarn Guang-ming (譚光明).
關鍵詞
覺鍐; Kakuban
摘要
At the age of 41 Kakuban，the author of this work and the founder of the New Doctrine branch of the Shingon School，resigned all his official posts and，shutting himself up in a room of the Mitsugon-in Temple，spent 1,500 days in silent meditation. The present work was written at this time and is in verse form，consisting of 44 lines of 7 characters a line.
It is an expression of what might be called 'absolute penitence,' in which the author repents of not only his own sins but also those committed by others. Deploring the moral corruption of the monks at the time，Kakuban probably adopted this style in order to sound a warning to the Buddhist community. Even today this work is recited at least once a day by monks belonging to sects descending from Kakuban's school.
