Shinran · Theology
What it means to say <em>Namu-amida-butsu</em> - and Shinran’s decisive shift from the nembutsu as a meritorious practice the believer performs to the Name as Amida’s own gift, working through the person who utters it.
You learned that Namu-amida-butsu means ‘I take refuge in Amida Buddha,’ and that Shinran turned the nembutsu from a practice one performs for merit into the Name Amida bestows, so that even our saying of it is the vow’s working, not our own accomplishment. Explain the shift in your own words.
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