The Origion of the Pureland Faith & Honen Shonin's Teachings

Modern Philosophy 5:62-67 (2006)
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Japan Pure Land faith with the Chinese to the introduction and spread to the classic Japanese in Japan's ancient and widely popular in the world, the late twelfth century founded by the French and then the Master Pure Land, so that Japanese Buddhism to the civilian population, and Japan completed the process of localization. The rise of Pure Land thought and method and then the birth of Pure Land Buddhism, Study the reason no doubt is from the Dharma-Ending age of popular thinking at the time. France then proposed the idea specializing in Buddhism, and "Infinite Life Sutra," "outlook Infinite Life Sutra", "Amitabha Sutra" as Pure Land Buddhism is based on the fundamental classic, He is the author of "Buddhism is willing to choose the set" is the sectarian master of the ideological and theoretical works. Spread to Japan accompanied by the importation of translated Chinese classics into the country, The Pureland Faith was so popular in ancient and middle ages that it led to the birth of the Jodo Sect founded by Mater Honen in the late 12th century. Undoubtedly, the rise of the Pure-land Faith and the Jodo Sect was, in essence, due to the popularity of the theory concerning about the last stage of Buddhism at that time. The Japanese Jodo Sect accepted all around the theory advocated by Mater Shandao who was the founder of the Chinese Jodo Sect, while Master Honen was the very successor who gathered together the cream parts of the theory

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