Dear friends in the Nembutsu, 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... more
Dear friends in the Nembutsu,
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.
I have been looking for a translation of this text but I could hardly find a more 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.
This paper illustrates the influence and the reception of Genshin’s 源信 (942-1017) Ichijō yōketsu (一乗要決, Essentials of the One-vehicle) within medieval Japanese Buddhism.
