| Buddhist Churches of America The Buddhist Bookstore 1710 Octavia Street San Francisco, CA 94109 Phone: 415-776-7877 FAX: 415-771-6293 Prices are subject to change A complete catalogue is available from the Bookstore. Titles from the Shin Buddhism Translation Series This series is the newest and most modern compendium of English translations. These are a must for serious students, but even the beginner will find them easy to read and understand. These are very fine books, and necessary for any Buddhist library. - The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way A Translation of Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho Vol. I Shinran Shin Buddhist Translation Series 200 pg. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH053e US$15.00 In this work, the realization taught in the Mahayana tradition is revealed to be within the reach of all, and in particular, the person most deeply bound by the attachments of the ignorant self. Here, Shinran indeed reveals the essentials of the Buddhist path - as manifested in his experience of the Pure Land way. - Introduction. Appendixes. - The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way A Translation of Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho Vol II Author: Shinran Shin Buddhism Translation Series 151 pg. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH093e US$15.00 Shinran wrote Kyogyoshinsho to clarify the teaching of "birth through the Nembutsu" that he had received from Honen. In "Chapter on Shinjin," Shinran develops the core of his teaching, which forms the basis for his resolution of these issues. Central to his position, however, is the inseparability of the fundamental elements of the Pure Land Way - practice and shinjin, or the Nembutsu and the mind of true entrusting from which it emerges - and without a grasp of the interrelationship between them, a reading of "Chapter on Shinjin" is impossible. - Introduction. Appendixes. - The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way A Translation of Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho Vol III Author: Shinran Shin Buddhism Translation Series 117 pg. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH121e US$15.00 The two chapters included in this volume - "Chapter on Realization" and "Chapter on True Buddha and Land" - present both the wellspring and the end of the Pure Land Way and bring to conclusion the portion of Kyogyoshinsho treating the true teaching. In the fourth and fifth chapters translated here, Shinran takes up the question of the nature of enlightenment itself, and in the sixth and final chapter, he goes on to explore the significance of the provisional teachings of the Pure Land way. - Introduction. Appendixes. - The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way A Translation of Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho Vol IV Author: Shinran Shin Buddhism Translation Series 163 pg. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH154e US$15.00 In the concluding chapter of Teaching, Practice and Realization, Chapter VI on "Transformed Buddha-Bodies and Lands" presented in this volume, Shinran takes up the problem of teachings other than the "true essence of the Pure Land way" that he has delineated in the preceding five chapters. In terms of the overall organization of the work, the first five chapters treat the true elements of the Pure Land path: the true teachings, practice, shinjin, realization, and Buddha and Pure Land. The final chapter, by contrast, treats teachings that cannot simply be called "true"; they are not direct expressions of the genuine path. These various teachings include most importantly the differing teachings within the Pure Land way - which lead not to the true Pure Land but to imperfect attainments in "transformed lands" - and also embrace other forms of Buddhism and even non-Buddhist beliefs. Introduction. Appendixes - Hymns of the Pure Land A Translation of Shinran's Jodo Wasan Author: Shinran Shin Buddhism Translation Series 101 pg. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH167e US$11.00 In his wasan hymns, Shinran presents the message of important passages from the sutras and other writings of the Pure Land tradition. This is the first of his three major collections of wasan, together they are known as the Sanjo Wasan. This collection deals with the Pure Land itself, and is based upon the sutras, and the writings of other masters. - Introduction . Index. - Hymns of the Pure Land Masters A Translation of Shinran's Koso Wasan Author: Shinran Shin Buddhism Translation Series 98 pg. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH168e US$11.00 Hymns of the Pure Land Masters (Koso Wasan) is Shinran's second major collection of hymns. It was composed as a continuation of his presentation of the Pure Land tradition begun in Hymns of the Pure Land (Jodo Wasan), and in fact, the two collections were originally a single work of over two-hundred hymns under a single title. In this volume, Shinran moves on to the eminent teachers of the tradition, and takes up the seven Patriarchs. - Introduction. Index. - Notes on Once-calling and Many-calling A Translation of Shinran's Ichinen-tanen mon'i Author: Shinran Shin Buddhism Translation Series 104 pg. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH052e US$8.00 What, in fact, does it mean to attain birth in the Pure Land through the Nembutsu? In his Notes on Once-Calling and Many-Calling, Shinran delves into the significance of true entrusting (shinjin) and saying the Name. This awakening is itself brought about by Amida. It is the emergence in a person's life of the working of the Primal Vow, Which is beyond all time. In the realization of which is shinjin, which takes place in the briefest instant of the immediate present - "time at its ultimate limit" - the bonds that tie one to a life of empty repetition in samsaric time are broken forever. - Jacket notes. Glossary and index. - Passages on the Pure Land Way A Translation of Shinran's Jodo monrui jusho Author: Shinran Shin Buddhism Translation Series 142 pg. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH054e US$12.00 For the reader venturing for the first time into the unfamiliar terrain of Shinran's many and varied writings, Passages on the Pure Land Way shines forth like a polished gem. As a compendium of Shinran's teaching, Passages on the Pure Land Way is unsurpassed in the lucidity of its outline. - Introduction. Appendixes, glossary and index. - Notes on 'Essentials of Faith Alone' A Translation of Shinran's Yuishinsho-mon'i Author: Shinran Shin Buddhism Translation Series 127 pg. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH049e US$8.00 Shinran wrote these Notes to explore the meaning of important passages from the Pure Land scriptures. The passages are those quoted in Essentials of Faith Alone, an outline of Honen's teaching by Shinran's contemporary Seikaku. - Jacket notes. Glossary and index. - Notes on the Inscriptions of the Sacred Scrolls A Translation of Shinran's Songo shinzo meimon Author: Shinran Shin Buddhism Translation Series 145 pg. Illus. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH051e US$12.00 Shinran and his followers often placed hanging scrolls rather than wooden statues in their altars and affixed to them key passages from the sutras and the writings of the masters. Shinran's explanations of these inscriptions form a compendium of his teaching. - Jacket notes. Glossary and index. - Letters of Shinran A Translation of Mattosho Author: Shinran Shin Buddhism Translation Series 102 pg. Hongwanji International Center Order No: SH050e US$8.00 The letters are clear, concise, and reflect Shinran's lifetime of work. These letters, written in Shinran's last years, reveal the culmination of his spiritual life and are widely regarded as monuments in the development of Mahayana Buddhism. In them Shinran expresses his vision of how the ultimate reality of Buddhism, which is formless, works with great wisdom compassion in the world of forms, manifesting itself as Amida's Primal Vow. - Jacket notes. glossary and index. - Selected Texts of Shin Buddhism Author: English Publication Bureau 85 pg. Honpa Hongwanji Order No: SH085e US$1.00 This is the companion to the Kyogyoshinsho. This volume contains the Smaller Sukhavati-Vyuha Sutra, Vasubandhu's Discourse on Paradise, and Shinran's Hymn of Faith (Shoshin ge). Together they five an overview of Shinran's thought, and Jodo Shinshu. Useful to scholars, the Japanese sources are printed on facing pages. This book is best used with the following: item Order No. SH086, the Kyogyoshinsho, Buddhist Publication Series No 2. - Kyo-Gyo-Shin-Sho Author: Shinran English Publication Bureau 84 pg. Honpa Hongwanji Order No: SH086e US$1.00 This translation of Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho was the standard in English when it was published in 1954. It is smaller and more concise than other versions, and the technical terms appear in both Roman script and Chinese characters. - The KyoGyoShinSho The Teaching, Practice, Faith and Attainment Author: Shinran, Kosho Yamamoto, trans. 518 pg. The Karinbunko Order No: SH113e US$15.00 This is a good source for study, and comparative research. The main text is in English, and the notes and glossary give the original characters. Yamamoto writes in a unique style, refreshing to read. Glossary and index. - Tannisho A Shin Buddhist Classic Author: Taitetsu Unno, trans. 73 pg. Buddhist Study Center Press Order No: SH043e US$8.95 "This is a revised translation of Tannisho: Lamenting the Deviations, first published in 1977 by the Buddhist Study Center, Honolulu. The Tannisho in original Japanese is regarded not only as a religious but also a literary classic. To render such a work into smooth English is almost impossible without doing injustice to the original. However, I have attempted to convey some sense of its style, content, and religious flavor." - Forward - Tannisho: A Primer Author: Dennis Hirota, trans. 135 pg. Ryukoku University Order No: SH101e US$8.00 "Tannisho is indisputably one of the great religious classics of Japan. Among the many Buddhist works this country has produced, there is none as well-known and widely read. Tannisho has brought insight into the highest aspirations of human life, not only for those who take Shinran's teaching, Shin Buddhists, as the guiding light of their lives, but even for those with no religious affiliation whatever. Tannisho expresses the inner core of Shinran's religious realization, and in its pages, the reader comes face to face with Shinran the man." - Introduction | |
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