Shinran

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Shinran ( Japanese 親 鸞 ; * 1173 ; † 1263 ), founder of the Amidism ("Pure Land Buddhism") school of Jōdo-Shinshū of Japanese Buddhism . Shinran first belonged to the Tendai School and the Jōdo-shū School, on which he founded his system and from which he distinguished himself by rejecting monasticism.

Shinran is one of the great innovators of Buddhism and is considered the father of the Buddhist lay movement, which has since been regarded as the foundation of Buddhism and an essential part of the fourfold community - consisting of monks, nuns, and lay students. His school, Jōdo-Shinshū, is the largest denomination of Japanese Buddhism after Nichiren -shū and is deeply anchored in the country's popular beliefs. In this teaching, the Pure Land of Shinran is interpreted in a completely new way, whereby he is based primarily on the three Sutras of the Pure Land: the Great Pure Land Sutra (Japanese Muryōju-kyō ), the little one -pure country Sutra (Jap. Amida-kyo ) and the Meditationssutra (Jap. Kanmuryōju-kyo ).

In the German-speaking area, the philosopher of religion Volker Zotz has dealt with Shinran and his teachings in various works. As a religious doctrine, Shinran's teaching was introduced in Europe in the 1950s by Harry Pieper , who based his interpretation on the Japanese text Tannishō , which contains the collective sayings of Shinran.

The American writer Ruth Tabrah wrote a novel about Shinran.

literature

  • Buswell, Robert Jr; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., eds. (2013). Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Shinran). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 807. ISBN 9780691157863 .
  • Dobbins, James C. "The Biography of Shinran: Apotheosis of a Japanese Buddhist Visionary." History of Religions 30, no. 1 (1990): 179-96.
  • Dobbins, James C. Jōdo Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan. Bloomington 1989. Pure Land Buddhist Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002 [1989]
  • Little one, Christoph . Buddhism in Japan: history, teaching, practice . Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015 [2011]
  • Little one, Christoph . Pure Land Buddhism: From Chinese and Japanese Traditions . 1st edition Berlin, Berlin: Insel Verlag; World Religions Publishing House, 2015
  • * Shinran Shonin, Hisao Inagaki ( transl .): Kyōgyōshinshō: On Teaching, Practice, Faith, and Enlightenment ( Memento of May 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, Berkeley 2003, ISBN 1-886439- 16-8 .
  • Takamaro Shigaraki : Even the good are redeemed, how much more the bad. The path of the Buddhist master Shinran. Translated and provided with a foreword by Volker Zotz. Kairos Edition , Luxembourg 2004, ISBN 2-9599829-2-4 .
  • Ueda, Yoshifumi, Dennis Hirota: Shinran: An Introduction to His Thought. With Selections from the Shin Buddhism Translation Series. Hongwanji International Center, Kyoto 1989.
  • Volker Zotz : The Buddha in the Pure Land. Shin Buddhism in Japan. Munich 1991, ISBN 3-424-01120-7 .
  • S. Yamabe, L. Adams Beck (transl.): Buddhist Psalms of Shinran Shonin. John Murray, London 1921. (PDF) (4.9 MB) e-book
  • Alfred Bloom: The Essential Shinran: A Buddhist Path of True Entrusting, World Wisdom, 2007, ISBN 978-1-933316-21-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruth Tabrah: The Monk who dared. A novel about Shinran . Kailua (Hawaii): Press Pacifica 1995
personal data
SURNAME Shinran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shinran Shonin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the associated school of Jodo Shinshu
DATE OF BIRTH 1173
DATE OF DEATH 1263