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- Rambelli, “Just Behave, p. 176.
- Hymns of the Dharma Ages. Shozomatsu Wasan LXLIV. CWS, p. 421.
- Hymns of the Dharma Ages. Shozomatsu Wasan LXLV. CWS,
p. 421. - Hymns of the Dharma Ages. Shozomatsu Wasan CXVI. CWS,
p. 429. - A Record in Lament of Divergences. Tannisho VI. CWS, p. 664.
- The best example is Shinran’s disowning of his son Jishin-bo in
- Jishin-bo had deceived Shinran by claiming in front of his stu-
dents that he had received new and secret teachings. The new teach-
ings divided the community between those who remained faithful
to Shinran’s original teaching and those who espoused Jishin-bo’s
purported secret and new teaching. Although the actual content of
Jishin-bo’s doctrines is largely a matter of speculation, it seems to
have contained the idea that the community ought to enter a symbi-
otic relationship with the political authorities and powerful patrons.
A thorough account of the dispute and disowning can be found in
Bloom. “The Life of Shinran Shonin: The Journey to Self-Acceptance”
in Paul Williams, ed., Buddhism in China, East Asia and Japan. Vol II
(Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005), pp. 87–93. - This moment of negative self-discovery and its social implications
can be compared to Max Stirner’s notion of empörung, since they
both represent a turning point that begins within the individual but
that ultimately has social consequences. Both notions also lead to a
debunking of inner and outer authorities, as De Ridder explains in
relation Stirner in his essay “Max Stirner: The End of Philosophy and
Political Subjectivity”, in Max Stirner, ed. by Saul Newman (London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), p. 160. - Kudensho VI in Bloom, ed. The Essential Shinran. A Buddhist
Path of True Entrusting (Boston: World Wisdom, 2007), p. 20. - Ugo Dessi discusses “The Pure Land as a Principle of Social
Criticism” in Japanese Religions, 33 (1 & 2), 75–90. - Lamp for the Latter Ages. Mattosho VII. CWS, p. 532.
- Hymns of the Pure Land Masters. Koso Wasan XXXIX. CWS,
p. 371.