Introduction: Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition
Introduction: Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition
This introductory chapter provides a brief historical background of the Shin Buddhist tradition. It pinpoints two Buddhist leaders who advocated an exclusive reliance on the celestial buddha Amida for birth in his Pure Land at the beginning of the Kamakura period (1185–1333)—during a time of dramatic political, social, and religious change. These figures are Hōnen (1133–1212), the patriarch of the Jōdoshū or Pure Land Sect, and his disciple Shinran (1173–1262), who came to be regarded as the originator of the Jōdo Shinshū or True Pure Land Sect, or Shin Buddhism as it is often called in modern scholarship. This chapter also introduces Yasuda Rijin (1900–1982), a modern Shin Buddhist thinker whose work involved a “demythologizing” of the popular understanding of Shin Buddhism.
Keywords: Shin Buddhism, Yasuda Rijin, Hōnen, Shinran, demythologizing, Amida, Buddhism
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