Faith; Pure Land; Wonhyo; Yogacara; Tathagatagarbha
摘要
Among the numerous distinctive aspects of the work of the noted Korean scholar-monk Wonhyo is the broad range of traditions and texts that he accorded treatment-along with the unusual level of fairness and seriousness he brought to such works-an indication of his lack of sectarian bias. Another distinctive aspect of his work as an exegete is the extent to which his "religious" attitude-his concern for the nurturance of the faith in the minds of his readers inevitably rises to the forefront of his works. Thus, what he has to say about the idea of "faith" 信 in the context of a Pure Land work is a matter of considerable interest. On the other hand, given the way that the Pure Land tradition is currently perceived by its modern adherents, one might be given to assume that the notion of "faith in other-power" constitutes the backbone of the arguments made in seminal Pure Land scriptures such as the Sutra of Immeasurable Life (Larger Sukhavati-vyuha; K. Muryangsu-gyeong, C. Wu-liang-shou-jing). This paper shows, based on Wonhyo`s analysis, how in fact the main form of faith expounded by the sutra is something much more like that seen articulated in mainstream Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha texts. The paper also shows how Wonhyo uses Yogacara-based hermeneutics to unravel the conundrum of the four kinds of cognition dropped, without explanation in the final lines of the sutra.
