Read Shinran’s Tannisho[the Lamentations of Divergences] and Keel’s Understanding Shinran(page 139-145), and answer the following questions in full sentences.
From Shinran’s Tannisho[the Lamentations of Divergences]
1) Why do people come to see Shinran? (Line 2-1)
2) Why is hell to be my home? (Line 2-5, 6, 7)
3) People commonly say, “Even an evil person attains birth, so naturally a good person will.” Yet, Shinran says, “Even the virtuous man is born in the Pure Land, so without question is the man who is evil.” Why is the Pure Land for the man who is evil? (Line 3-8)
4) Depending upon your view on human beings, which one is more appealing to you between salvation by “self-effort” in early Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, and Jainism, and salvation by “other power” in Pure Land Buddhism? And why?
From Keel’s Understanding Shinran(page 139-145)
1) What is one of the most serious problems in Shinran’s soteriological teaching(Shinran’s Pure Land teachings)?
2) What does “licensed evil” mean?
3) Shinran said, “Do not take a liking to poison just because there is an antidote.”(p. 142). What does that mean?
4) If evil does not hinder our salvation, what religious reason can we provide for avoiding evil ? In other words, according to Shinran, how can one overcome the antinomian danger(“licensed evil”) of the doctrine of Pure Land Buddhism?
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