Research On Shinran’s Thought Of Judging And Teaching

Shinran’s Pure Land Theory is another rebirth of Indian and Chinese Pure Land thought on the soil of Japan following the Faran Pure Land Theory.This rebirth is a rebirth that has adapted to the Japanese soil environment,and is a rebirth cultivated by the working people in Japan.,is another new fruit after Buddhism spread to Japan.Combining his ups and downs life experience,this article takes the theory of judgment founded by Shinran as the core,and develops around its origin,teachings and main characteristics.Shinran proposed a brand-new idea of judging and teaching,which was inseparable from the social reality in which he lived: Japan at that time was in a period of frequent natural disasters,with declining grain production,sharp decline in population,intensified social conflicts and wars.When the people desperately need spiritual comfort,the increasingly corrupt Buddhism turns a blind eye,and the monks are either obsessed with power struggles or greedy for worldly pleasures.Shinran felt confused about the reality,he chose to leave Hieisan to find the faith in his heart,which was the beginning of his thinking change in the future.According to Buddhism,he was in a period of the end of the Dharma,when the Dharma was declining.After studying with Faran,Shinran resolutely chose the idea of chanting Buddha in the Pure Land,which was the second change in his thinking.On the one hand,he has lived in Echigo and rice fields for many years,often working with the local people,and he understands the real religious needs of the people.Find a religious method that works for both the underclass and yourself.This is the third change in Shinran’s thinking,and it is also the direct reason for his new theory.Shinran’s judging thought is mainly divided into two parts: the general judgment of the first generation of holy religion and the detailed judgment of the pure land.He first divided Buddhism into two parts according to the standards of self-reliance and altruism,and judged it into two parts: Mahayana and Hinayana,and then further explained the contents of these two parts,but because Shinran believed in the The former,and therefore its theoretical focus,is on the interpretive part of Mahayana Buddhism.In the Mahayana part of Buddhism,he used the two powers of self and the other and the two paths of difficulty and difficulty as the standard,and interpreted them as the two opposite methods: the gate of the holy way of self-reliance and hard-to-practice and the gate of pure land of other-power and easy practice,and then he added horizontal and vertical After the two new standards of He Jiandun were combined with the sub-judgment of Shan Dao Gate and Pure Land Gate,Shinran put forward the theory of double-double and four-fold judgment.In the fine judgment,Shinran mainly focused on the three methods of Hongzhen and the four methods of teaching,practicing,trusting and witnessing.Qinluan developed Shan Dao’s ideas of Hongyuanmen and Yaomen into Hongyuanmen,Zhenmen and Yaomen,and put the pure land thoughts of the past into these three doors.The sutra is the only true way for ordinary people to be reborn in the Pure Land,while the other two correspond to the 19 th and 22 nd vows of Amitabha.They are described in the Small Sutra and the Vipassana Sutra.They are false methods mixed with self-reliance and doubts..Later,Shinran combined these three methods with the four-step method of practice,so that each method corresponds to a method of practice.Similarly,the only true method corresponding to the door of Hongyuan is the only real method.Shinran uses this to persuade the world to convert to the Pure Land.true teaching.Generally speaking,there are three main characteristics of judging: he is independent,confidence-based,and repaying gratitude by name.In Shinran’s judging thought,he completely denies the idea of self-reliance,while his admiration for other power has reached an extreme.He describes his power as an objective,natural and sacred existence.This strengthens the rationality and feasibility of its own theory.Precisely because he power is the basis of the Shinran theory,the belief in he power has become the core issue of whether ordinary people will be reborn in the Pure Land.Just because other power is the root of rebirth,then the behavior of ordinary people’s name and recitation of Buddha is irrelevant,so Shinran explained the name as an act of repaying kindness to Amitabha.Later followers of Pure land true religion established their own theoretical framework based on Shinran’s theory of judgment,and determined the standard of reassurance and departure.After hundreds of years of development,Pure land true religion has become a very influential religious group in Japan.