last updated January 20, 2020 - better quality pdf!
last update April 2nd 2014
I revised this English edition with the help of Richard St Clair (Shaku Egen) and added some footnotes marked with "editor's note".
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| Master Genshin (942-1017) |
I am glad to
present to you this incomplete English edition of Ojoyoshu, composed in 985 by Master
Genshin (Eishin/Eshin), the sixth Patriarh of our Jodo Shinshu school. It contains only two chapters from the entire work, but still I am sure you will find it useful.
The importance of this text upon Shinran Shonin and Honen Shonin
was great, the first even wrote a commentary on it, Notes on Essentials of Rebirth, while the latter wrote four such
commentaries. In 986, a
copy was sent to China ,
where the monks where so impressed that they called Genshin the "Little
Shakyamuni".
I have been
looking for a translation of this text but I could hardly find a recent one.
So after long search I came by a magazine called The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, second series, volume VII, 1930. In it there was
this translation from Japanese made by A.K. Reischauer ( M.A., D.D., L.L.D.)
which I decided to share with you here.
This version also includes the translator's introduction which you may read it or just scroll down a few pages to the actual text of Ojoyoshu.
8 comentarii:
Dear Priest Josho,
could you please informe me if we can buy this book by internet?
Thank you, very much!
Namo Amida Butsu,
Rodrigo Tunes.
Dear Rodrigo,
I do not know of any printed version you can buy on internet. Just download it and read it.
Dear Priest Josho,
Thank you for all your kindness.
Namo Amida Butsu,
Rodrigo Tunes
Thank you Josho Adrian for putting up Master Genshin's Ojoyoshu. It is so wonderful and helpful to me. Namo Amida Butsu! Thank you Thank you Amida Buddha!
You are welcomed, Jeremiah! Namo Amida Butsu!
I hadn't read this before, I found it last night on the Academia website, it is amazing thank you for your work in uploading it.
You are welcomed. However, this is not the complete text of Ojoyoshu, just a part. I hope somebody will one day make a full translation.
Hopefully that will happen, I think it's my favourite spiritual text right behind Kyo Gyo Shin Sho. Gives the mind so much clarity and goes into great detail. A real blessing to read it.
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