|
| |
| | Honen Shonin’s Religious and Social Significance in the Pure Land Tradition |
 | | Myoe Shonin criticized Honen’s teaching as a betrayal of Buddhism and an erroneous interpretation. | | | It is probably this aspect of Honen Shonin's teaching that most threatened the established Buddhist Orders and lead to the proscription of his movement in accord with the Kofukuji appeal to the Court. | | | According to the entreaty, Honen Shonin's movement resulted in the decline of other sects, which were based on the union of Buddhism and the State. |
|
http://www.shindharmanet.com/writings/honen.htm
(2000 words)
|
|
| |
| | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Honen |
| | Honen (1133-1212), Japanese Buddhist monk and founder of the Jodo sect of Pure Land Buddhism. | | | The Kamakura period also saw the growth of various types of Buddhism, with the popular Pure Land beliefs of the prophets Honen and Shinran vying with... | | | Pure Land Buddhism has survived up to the present in China, but it has been especially important in Japan. |
|
http://au.encarta.msn.com/Honen.html
(86 words)
|
|
| |
| | Orange County Buddhist Church |
| | Honen had left the orthodox Tendai tradition, and was teaching his own form of Buddhism, focusing on the Nembutsu. | | | Honen was trying to bring a path of Buddhism to the common person. | | | Honen was becoming quite popular, but was receiving harsh criticism from the orthodox Buddhism. |
|
http://www.bca-ocbc.org/Messages/Harada/HaradaJan2002.htm
(1490 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Jodo Schools |
| | Honen's Senchaku Shu was matched by Nichirenists who taught that Nichiren was the true Buddha and Shakyamuni a provisional one, and that all of Shakyamuni's teachings were heretical. | | | The Jodo or Pure Land School, were founded by the teacher Honen Daishi based on the Pure Land Sutras written about Amithaba Buddha (The Buddha of the East), who had made a vow to save all who call his name. | | | Honen Daishi taught that the Buddha Amida had vowed to save anyone who called his name. |
|
http://www.geocities.com/chris_holte/Buddhism/IssuesInBuddhism/jodo.html
(2484 words)
|
|
| |
| | Writings - Japanese Pure Land Buddhism |
| | Honen's knowledge about Buddhism is said to have been appreciated by his contemporaries as "the first and foremost in wisdom". | | | One day, at the age of 43 (1175), Honen came upon a passage in Shan-tao's Exposition of the Sutra of Meditation which is said to have converted him to Pure Land Buddhism. | | | At fourteen Honen was sent to Mt. Hiei to study Buddhism. |
|
http://www.threewheels.org.uk/writings_section_files/writings_talks_files/talks_12.htm
(4316 words)
|
|
| |
| | JODO SHU English |
| | Shinran (1173-1262) became a disciple of Honen in 1201 at the age of twenty-nine. | | | Among the priests attracted to Honen's teaching, Shoku, Shoko, and Shinran are important, because they later developed denominations of Pure Land Buddhism in Japan. | | | However, when he heard Honen's sermon that even a sinful man could attain salvation through the teaching of the nembutsu, he was moved to tears and became Honen's disciple. |
|
http://www.jodo.org/about_hs/ho_life.html
(2166 words)
|
|
| |
| | Honen Shonin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Hōnen, a.k.a Honen Bo Genku, (法然; 1133-1212) is credited with the establishment of Jōdo (Pure Land) Buddhism as an independent sect in Japan. | | | As your faith, accept that birth is attained with a single utterance; as your practice, endeavour in the Nembutsu throughtout life." | | | Alfred Bloom - Honen Shonin’s Religious and Social Significance in the Pure Land Tradition |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honen
(1053 words)
|
|
| |
| | Untitled Document |
| | Honen's faith manifestly equated physical death with ultimate salvation, but for Shinran it was not death but faith that had to be absolutized. | | | Honen and Shinran: their relationship has often been assumed to be that of the master who transmitted vocal-nembutsu and the disciple who inherited it. | | | A sequel to the critical religion known as exclusive-nembutsu, Shinran's theory was the necessary apparition of a religion of human dignity. |
|
http://www.americanbuddhist.org/book_discussion/excerpts/degeneration_of_death.html
(2532 words)
|
|
| |
| | Rev. Doami's January 2003 |
| | He soon became one of Honen’s top disciples to the point where he was challenged by other disciples for saying that, although in matters of learning and practice he was much inferior to Honen, his Shinjin and Honen’s were one and the same. | | | Honen’s answer above to the question of whether his and Shinran’s Shinjin were one and the same would seem to have ended this latter speculation, but apparently his disciples continued to maintain otherwise. | | | Century CE when Shinran was born, there were eight major sects of Buddhism in Japan, all of which required practices of one sort or another, primarily, but not only, meditation, in order to realize enlightenment, what we might call awakening to the true reality of ourselves in order to free ourselves from suffering. |
|
http://www.bca-ocbc.org/Messages/Doami/DoamiMay2003.htm
(383 words)
|
|
| |
| | Honen Biography / Biography of Honen Main Biography |
| | Honen was the son of an official of Mimasaka Province whose dying wish was that Honen become a monk. | | | Honen the Buddhist saint, New York: Garland, 1981. | | | The Japanese Buddhist monk Honen (1133-1212) is considered the real founder of Japanese Amidism in the form of the Pure Land sect, or Jodoshu. |
|
http://www.bookrags.com/biography-honen
(445 words)
|
|
| |
| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Self-awareness During Dharma Study |
| | Before Shinran met Honen, he had thought that a Buddha was a teacher, a respected and worshipped person. | | | This way Honen embodied the spirit of a Buddha by the name of Namu Amida Butsu (Bowing Amida Buddha). | | | Before Shinran met Honen, Shinran thought that a Buddha was a “good” and “wise” person—a holy person who was possessed of wonderful virtues. |
|
http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=3574
(3135 words)
|
|
| |
| | Origins of Buddhism |
| | In the mythology of Amida, that promise was fulfilled and Dharmakara became Amida Buddha. | | | Shinran described this as a true understanding of Pure Land as taught by Honen and as the true dharma of Shakyamuni: True Pure Land Buddhism. | | | At the heart of True Pure Land Buddhism is the promise of Amida Buddha, directed toward those least capable of attaining enlightenment. |
|
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/pureland/origins_of_true_pure_land_buddhi.htm
(394 words)
|
|
| |
| | A Raft from the Other Shore : Honen and the Way of Pure Land Buddhism (Sho-on Hattori) |
| | Honen was also the teacher of Shinran who was another great master of the Pure Land tradition of Buddhism. | | | In the view of Honen's most illustrious disciple, Shinran, Amida Buddha is the compassionate aspect of the highest reality and, in that respect, can also be considered `the ground of being' -which Hattori explicitly denies as being applicable to Amida Buddha. | | | Although Honen received his ordination and training in the Tendai tradition of Mahayana Buddhism, he eventually broke with this school and established the Pure Land way of refuge in Amida Buddha as an independent path for the first time. |
|
http://www.interference.com/webstore/us/product/4883633292.htm
(1864 words)
|
|
| |
| | Honen -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | After a period of local instruction, Honen at age 15 was sent to Mount Hiei, the monastic centre of the Tendai sect of Buddhism. | | | Introduced as a student monk to Pure Land doctrines brought from China by Tendai priests, he stressed nembutsu (Japanese: recitation of the name of Amida Buddha) as the one practice necessary for... | | | He was seminal in establishing Pure Land pietism as one of the central forms of Buddhism in Japan. |
|
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9040929?tocId=9040929
(459 words)
|
|
| |
| | Vista View Feb 2003 |
| | Honen Shonin's teaching of impartiality of all people before Amida Buddha ran counter to the class system which the government imposed. | | | During the Jogen religious persecution of 1207, only Honen Shonin and his most illustrious senior disciples were actually exiled. | | | However, it was during this time that Shinran sama digested Honen's Nembutsu teaching and resolved to spread what he had received. |
|
http://www.vbtemple.org/vistaview/2003/vv0302.htm
(1021 words)
|
|
| |
| | [No title] |
| | Shinran expressed gratitude not only to Honen, as central as he was, but to all the preceding teachers who gave direction and meaning to the teaching from earliest times. | | | When Shinran thought about the great privilege Honen gave him, he exclaimed: What a joy it is, that I place my mind in the soil of the Buddha's Universal Vow and I let my thoughts flow into the Sea of Inconceivable Dharma. | | | As a memento of the relationship between the teacher and the disciple, Honen permitted Shinran to copy his book, the Treatise on the Nembutsu of the Select Original Vow. |
|
http://www.aloha.net/~rtbloom/shinran/abloom/sermon_7.txt
(1257 words)
|
|
| |
| | UH Press: Books and Journals published by the University of Hawaii Press |
| | Honen Bo Genku (1133-1212), or simply Honen, is one of the most outstanding figures in the long history of Japanese Buddhism. | | | In the style of scholarship prevalent during this period, Honen presents this spiritual vision through adapted textual passages from the Pure Land tradition. | | | Along with Dogen, Nichiren, and Shinran, his disciple, he represents the core of the revolutionary Kamakura Buddhist movement that created the first popular and uniquely Japanese forms of Buddhism. |
|
http://www.uhpresshawaii.com/cart/shopcore?db_name=uhpress&page=shop/flypage&product_sku=0-8248-2110-6
(237 words)
|
|
| |
| | Pure Land, Dogen Zen |
| | Honen broke with the traditional views of other Buddhists who looked to a variety of teachings and instead advocated the single-minded recitation of the nembutsu, Namu Amida Butsu. | | | Honen taught that the unfolding of Amida's compassion and wisdom was felt in this life, but birth in the Pure Land in the next. | | | His form of Pure Land Buddhism is often referred to as Shin Buddhism, reflecting his expression, Jodo-shinshu, the true teaching of the Pure Land. |
|
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~munno/OregonCourses/PHIL2130004/R255_Pure_Land,_Dogen_Zen.html
(1968 words)
|
|
| |
| | Harold Stewart on Once-calling and Many-calling. |
| | Honen's disciple Kasai was accused of claiming that the devotee need Only call Amida once, and if he did teach this heterodox interpretation, then his master was justified in expelling him from his new Jodo sect. | | | Even during Honen's lifetime, various misunderstandings and deviant views had arisen among his disciples and their followers regarding the correct method of invocation of the Name. | | | It was left for Shinran Shonin, who should be counted as the Eighth Patriarch of Pure Land Buddhism, to turn this quantitative approach of Honen into the qualitative Nembutsu by advocating the principle of Once-Calling by Amida. |
|
http://www.nembutsu.info/hsroncec.htm
(717 words)
|
|
| |
| | History of Pure land Buddhism - Chapter 7 |
| | Honen himself one day said: “I have never passed a single day without reading the Scriptures, except the day when Kiso kwanja invaded the capital.” But later on the nembutsu was to monopolise him totally. | | | Honen, Ichimai Kishomon, quoted by Shizutoshi sugihira, in The Eastern Buddhist, vol. | | | It is Zendo’s teaching, it is his religion, which Honen wishes to follow in it completeness. |
|
http://www.bdcu.org.au/BDDR/bddr12no6/pureland7.html
(5899 words)
|
|
| |
| | Shinran Shonin |
| | This short passage is indicative of the simplicity and purity of Shinran's faith and teaching. | | | Honen broke through Shinran's shell of hardened self-power and allowed him to directly experience the saving power of Amida Buddha's Primal Vow. | | | Frustrated to the point of feeling a total failure, he came down from Mt. Hiei (the monastic stronghold of Tendai Buddhism) at age 28 and sought guidance through meditation for 100 days at the shrine of Prince Shotoku. |
|
http://web.mit.edu/stclair/www/shinran.html
(616 words)
|
|
| |
| | Home |
| | Yet, the fact remains that even with Honen’s emphasis on the Vow, his practice of reciting the nembutsu could still be regarded as a self-power practice. | | | When he decided to get married, with the approval of his teacher Honen, he became – in a certain sense – the first married ‘priest’ in Japanese Buddhism. | | | Hiei (Tendai), northeast of Kyoto, he came to the sobering realization that all the meditative and non-meditative practices he had taken upon himself during these years had not brought him one step closer to enlightenment, the goal he had set out for himself. |
|
http://www.akshin.net/pureland/pl-purelandbuddhism-parttwo.htm
(4133 words)
|
|
| |
| | Home |
| | Honen is banished to Tosa and his major disciples are either exiled or executed. | | | November 7: Due to mounting criticism by Mt. Hiei religious authorities over the Pure Land teachings and practices of Honen’s movement, his disciple Seikaku composes an apology and Shinku writes a defense entitled "Seven-article pledge" for Honen, inviting major disciples to sign it. | | | In October, the major Nara Buddhist monastic institution, Kofukuji, requests an imperial ban on the Nembutsu movement, as the Hosso School monk-scholar Jokei presents a nine article petition entitled "Kofukuji Report to the Throne" accusing Honen and his disciples of heresy. |
|
http://www.akshin.net/pureland/shinranlifework.htm
(1592 words)
|
|
| |
| | Honen |
| | Honen (1133-I2I2) entered Mt. Hiei and studied the Tendai doctrines at the age of 15, and later went to Nara to acquire knowledge of the Kegon and Hosso sects. | | | Sutra, in dealing with the thirty-fifth of the forty-eight Vows, namely the one about woman's birth into the Pure Land, he explains it as follows: -- "The vow of birth into the Pure Land by means of nembutsu, as above mentioned, refers to both men and women, without distinction. | | | Answer: --We ought in these latter days to do honor to a lawless and ignorant priest even as to the Buddha. |
|
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~gwang/id115.htm
(2562 words)
|
|
| |
| | SYMPOSIUM: PURE LAND BUDDHISM AND HONEN'S ENDURING INFLUENCE |
| | Honen (1133-1212) - founder of the Pure Land School of Buddhism in Japan, is being given free of charge on Saturday, November 30th from 1:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. | | | Saint Honen, whose profound teachings have been the focus of Japanese Buddhism, strove to include women as well as common people in the search for salvation - unlike other sects that sought to exclude them. | | | In 1992, it created an extension in Los Angleles who's academic mission has been to impart the spiritual and philosophical tenets of Buddhism, particularly those taught by Honen, and introduce it to the North American continent. |
|
http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/3/bullsym.html
(246 words)
|
|
| |
| | Shinbutsudo: A Web Page for the Study of Japanese Religions |
| | In 1204, Honen issued a pledge, which all of his followers affirmed, explaining the reasoning and justification behind the practice of so-called "self-indulgence" to the officials of Kotukuji in the main Buddhist temple at Nara. | | | After some time, the two began to feel that there was no need to refrain from the ordinary practices and desires of human life, despite the official Buddhist teaching that these were instances of self-indulgence and immoral acts. | | | In the dream, Shotoku told him to seek out Honen, the founder of Jodo (Pure Land) Buddhism, and hear his teachings. |
|
http://www.uwec.edu/philrel/shimbutsudo/shinran.html
(786 words)
|
|
| |
| | Renegade Monk |
| | We are drawn closer to Honen as a person and a spiritual genius who not only established Pure Land as an independent tradition but also impacted the overall Japanese Buddhist ethos of his time. | | | Honen, the founder of the Pure Land sect, has been greatly underestimated and neglected in modern studies of Japanese Buddhism. | | | The Pure Land sect of Japanese Buddhism is one of the strongest Buddhist sects in Japan, with three and a half million followers. |
|
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8076.html
(325 words)
|
|
| |
| | Pure Land Buddhism |
| | Shinran (1173‑1262), founder of the Jodo Shin school (Jodoshinshu), presently the largest single religious organization in Japan, was a disciple of Honen and referred to him as the "original patriarch" (ganso) Shinran is quoted as declaring that he would not regret falling into hell as a result of the nenbutsu practice advocated by Honen. | | | At the end of that century, it is commonly accepted that the watershed event for Pure Land Buddhism in Japan is the establishment of the Jodo school Jodoshi) by Honen (1133‑1212), the first school or sect devoted to this system of belief and practice. | | | It is hoped that this attempt to explicate Gyonen's framing of the establishment of Jodo school will not only contribute to our understanding of the enduring legacy of the Pure Land Buddhist message, but also provide insight into the implications of this new historical consciousness in Japanese Buddhism championed if not fashioned by Gyonen. |
|
http://www.wordtrade.com/religion/buddhism/budpurelandR.htm
(902 words)
|
|
| |
| | Names (June) |
| | The jealous monks approached the imperial court and claimed that the way of the Nembutsu teachings were not according to the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha. | | | After descending from Mt. Hiei, becoming a disciple of Honen Shonin, the name Shakku was given to him by the master. | | | An order was issued to Honen Shonin and seven of his disciples including Shinran Shonin. |
|
http://www.hawaiilink.net/~oneness/names.html
(627 words)
|
|
| |
| | Vista View 01/02 p1 |
| | Although Shinran studied Pure Land teachings before he met Honen Shonin, it was only after meeting specifically with Honen that he truly understood Amida Buddha's Original Vow (the 18th Vow of the Larger Sutra). | | | For Shinran, looking at Honen Shonin was simultaneously seeing Amida Buddha. | | | His expression of “I have no disciples of my own” illustrates that Shinran had no desire to start a new school of Buddhism or to construct a new temple. |
|
http://www.vbtemple.org/vistaview/2002/vv0201.htm
(1381 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Collected Works of Shinran Related Works A Record in Lament of Divergences 3 |
| | Master Honen and seven of his disciples were exiled, and four other disciples were executed. | | | As the late Master once related, in Master Honen's day, among his many disciples there were few who were of the same shinjin as Honen, and because of this, Shinran became involved in a debate with some fellow practicers. | | | It was while the former emperor Gotoba was in power that Master Honen established and spread the nembutsu school based on the Primal Vow of Other Power. |
|
http://www.shinranworks.com/relatedworks/tannisho3.htm
(1120 words)
|
|
| |
| | ONLY NEMBUTSU IS REAL |
| | Senjaku-"selecting"-has both the aspect of "to take or receive" and, at the same time, the aspect of "to throw away." Honen says that uttering nembutsu is the only treasure, the only virtue in life. | | | In the thought, and in the calling also, there is really an encounter, or at least a yearning of encounter with the Buddha. | | | Honen said, "If you can recite the nembutsu better by getting married, then get married. |
|
http://web.mit.edu/stclair/www/22.html
(783 words)
|
|
| |
| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Honen |
| | Honen (1133-1212), Japanese Buddhist monk and founder of the Jōdoshū (Jōdo sect of Pure Land Buddhism). | | | Born the son of a provincial military chief,... |
|
http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Honen.html
(32 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Tannisho/Epilogue |
| | This was once a cause of debate between Shinran and fellow disciples. | | | But as far as true entrusting, leading to birth in the Pure Land is concerned, no difference exists at all. | | | Both are the same." Still they continued to press Shinran, challenging him by saying, "How can that be possible?" |
|
http://www.livingdharma.org/Tannisho/TannishoEpilogue.html
(804 words)
|
|
| |
| | Honen-In |
| | Honen-In is a small Buddhist temple in northeast Kyoto along the Philosopher's path between Ginkaku-Ji and Nanzen-Ji. | | | It is most famous for its gate, which has a thatched roof. |
|
http://cmd.flovers.klever.net/honeninarch
(29 words)
|
|
| |
| | Maria Elisabetha Honen |
| | Note* __ ___ ____ She was baptized in 1642 in Limbach, Rheinland-Pfalz, daughter of Jacon Henrich Honen and Anna. | | | Permission granted to copy for personal and non-commercial purposes only. |
|
http://www.krepps.net/mariaelisabethahonen.htm
(106 words)
|
|
| |
| | Honen Shonin on Lifestyle |
| | To live this life means to create the manner in which one is able to recite Nembutsu in a natural way. | | | This passage is taken from An Anthology of the Teachings of Honen Shonin Bukkyo University, Los Anglels: 1998, pp. |
|
http://home1.gte.net/res6zeam/doctrine/lifestyle.html
(476 words)
|
|
| |
| | Honen Shonin: Information From Answers.com |
| | Honen Shonin is mentioned in the following topics: | | | It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer) |
|
http://www.answers.com/topic/honen-shonin
(132 words)
|
|
| |
| | [No title] |
| | Unable to obtain enlightenment, he was disappointed and went to meditate at a shrine, where he met his future teacher Honen. | | | After Shinrans death a tomb was erected and that area became the center of the Jodo Shin Shu movement. | | | This practice was becoming popular with the common people. |
|
http://www.stormpages.com/oracles1/jss.html
(2040 words)
|
|
| |
| | Bytes of Life -- March 15 2001 |
| | We followed the procession to Tagata Jinja and when the big, wooden penis was brought to the front of the shrine it spun furiously in circles and finally rested before the entrance. | | | The ceremonies were completed and it was time for the final stage of Honen Matsuri, the Mochi Nage. | | | Hosting a Mochi Nage (or rice-cake throw) is the closest a group of Japanese people can get to inciting a full-scale riot without being arrested by the police. |
|
http://farstrider.net/Journal/03-15-01.htm
(848 words)
|
|
| |
| | Honen Shonin - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | Honen Shonin (法然; 1133-1212) is credited with the establishment of Pure Land Buddhism as an independent sect in Japan. | | | Honen Shonin - Your Art History Reference Guide! | | | Honen Shonin - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
|
http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Honen
(58 words)
|
|
| |
| | Ikuta, by Zembo Motoyaso |
| | I am one that serves Honen Shonin of Kurodani; and as for this child here,--once when Honen was on a visit to the Temple of Kamo he saw a box lying under a trailing fir-tree; and when he raised the lid, what should he find inside but a lovely man-child one year old! | | | It did not seem to be more than a common foundling, but my master in his compassion took the infant home with him. | | | This English translation by Arthur Waley was published in The No Plays of Japan. |
|
http://www.theatrehistory.com/plays/ikuta.html
(773 words)
|
|
| |
| | Things to Know from Sources of Japanese Tradition, ch. 10 |
| | Does Honen's "One Page Testament" suggest that Shinran's criticism was valid? | | | Breifly outline the logic informing Myoe's ("Kegon") critique of Honen's Pure Land thought. | | | Shinran criticized Honen for "self-reliance" in advocating the nembutsu practice. |
|
http://core.ecu.edu/hist/tuckerjo/SJT-10.htm
(132 words)
|
|
| |
| | Angel Investor News.com |
| | While a management team is important, Honen says it’s not critical to many angels who are looking for a clear investment return in the near future. | | | Angel money is the primary source for the true start ups. | | | Honen has seen a higher quality of business plans come across his desk in the last couple of years. |
|
http://www.angel-investor-news.com/angelprofiles13.htm
(471 words)
|
|
| |
| | CEO, lawyer taking bill dispute into the ring - 2001-07-02 |
| | Poore says Honen should be happy he's meeting with clients. | | | Poore said a business meeting came up, Honen says his client's ducking the bout. | | | But Poore says Honen wanted the fight just before Honen leaves for vacation because "he doesn't want to be around town all bloody." |
|
http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2001/07/02/daily14.html
(626 words)
|
|
| |
| | Ajinomoto and Honen merge operations |
| | Honen and Ajinomoto Oil will set up a holding company into which they will transfer shares and become wholly owned subsidiaries. | | | Homepage > Formulation & Science > Ajinomoto and Honen... | | | The two companies will jointly streamline product development, production and distribution, and cooperate on marketing them by making use of their established brands. |
|
http://www.cosmeticsdesign.com/news/news-NG.asp?id=41453
(312 words)
|
|
|
