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| Ryosetsu Fujiwara Sensei |
Many years ago, when I first met the Jodo Shinshu
teaching, I was helped a lot by this teacher - Ryosetsu Fujiwara Sensei. He was
already born in the Pure Land long before I came into contact with two of his wonderful booklets, A Standard of Shinshu Faith, and Shin
Buddhism: The Teaching of Shinran Shonin. These books, and especially
the first, were a turning
point in my understanding of the basic doctrines of Jodo Shinshu and in becoming
opened to Amida's salvation. At that time he acted as a true teacher, helping
me to organize the information I had about Jodo Shinshu, and answering to some
of the questions that arised in my mind. Also due to A Standard of Shinshu Faith I officially became aware of the existence of wrong
views, as he added a list of them at the end of the book, under the name, "Examples of Unorthodox
Faith in Shinshu". The idea of "Amida Buddha and His Pure
Land being in our minds" was situated by him at the top list of heresies!
This was extremely useful.
It is a pity that nowadays he is not so much promoted in the
international sangha, but I will try my best to change the situation and I have
already done a first step by publishing online the complete edition of his wonderful
book, A Standard of Shinshu Faith (click here to download the pdf edition).
If there is someone among my readers who met Ryosetsu
Fujiwara Sensei during his lifetime, I ask him (or her) to please write to
me at josho_adrian@yahoo.com as I
would like to discuss some details with him and ask for some informations.
PS: There is almost no photo of him on the internet, so I
created this low quality black and white pic from the cover of his book, The Way to Nirvana printed
in 1974.
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Namo Amida Butsu
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