Shinran · Theology
How Shinran left twenty years of Tendai discipline on Mount Hiei, became Honen’s disciple, and built in his masterwork the <em>Kyogyoshinsho</em> a new Pure Land path meant for the age of <em>mappo</em>, the decline of the Dharma.
You learned that Shinran abandoned self-power austerities on Mount Hiei, took Honen’s exclusive nembutsu, and in the Kyogyoshinsho (‘Teaching, Practice, Faith, and Realization’) set out a Pure Land path for the age of mappo . Explain why the age mattered and what made his path new.
Leads to Honen.
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