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	Honen Shonin’s Religious and Social Significance in the Pure Land Tradition
		Honen Shonin makes no mention of material or worldly benefits in his text nor of the role of the kami in support of his teaching.
		While Honen Shonin was the pioneer, the implications of his thought, in later tinges, broadened the boundaries of hope for all people.
		It is not only Honen Shonin's message of hope in the afterlife that modern people need, but a direction for their everyday lives, lived in the awareness of Amida Buddha's compassionate embrace, made concrete in the Nembutsu whose recitation focuses our minds and hearts on the very basis of our lives.
	www.shindharmanet.com /writings/honen.htm (2000 words)

	Honen Daishi
		Honen Daishi was the founder of the Jodo or Pure Land School, based on the Pure Land Sutras written about Amithaba Buddha (The Buddha of the East), who made a vow to save all who call his name.
		Honen Started life as a Tendai Priest, and so his connection should have been with the Lotus Sutra, but the Tendai Sect during his life-time was heavily involved in esotericism and so, more than likely his practice and study had involved intensive meditation and personal instruction based on the use of mandalas and mudras.
		From a modern viewpoint, Honen was throwing up his hands at the possibility of people attaining Buddhahood through merit or in their present form and relying on salvation at the moment of death.
	www.geocities.com /chris_holte/Buddhism/honen.html (2068 words)

	Untitled Document
		Honen and Shinran: their relationship has often been assumed to be that of the master who transmitted vocal-nembutsu and the disciple who inherited it.
		Honen's answer to the impossible question of the relationship between "theory and practice" namely, his injunction to choose neither theory nor practice, to choose instead the "and" in between that borders on the "but"-should be named "wisdom" as opposed to "intelligence." Meanwhile, the basis of Shinran's worship was acute, philosophical introspection.
		Honen's image of the embodied Amida was not expected to be the signified of the chant namu Amida butsu.
	www.americanbuddhist.org /book_discussion/excerpts/degeneration_of_death.html (2532 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Honen
		Honen (1133-1212), Japanese Buddhist monk and founder of the Jodo sect of Pure Land Buddhism.
		Born the son of a provincial military chief, Honen...
		The Kamakura period also saw the growth of various types of Buddhism, with the popular Pure Land beliefs of the prophets Honen and Shinran vying with...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Honen.html (86 words)

	Honen Shonin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hōnen, a.k.a Honen Bo Genku, (法然; 1133-1212) is credited with the establishment of Jōdo (Pure Land) Buddhism as an independent sect in Japan.
		He initially studied at the famous temple of Enryakuji atop Mount Hiei, later leaving it to spread his own unique message of salvation to the general population.
		Ku Amida Butsu of Hosshoji, though less intelligent, contributes in leading the people to the Pure Land as an advocate of the nembutsu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honen (1053 words)

	JODO SHU English
		Honen was born in the village of Inaoka in the township of Kume in Mimasaka province, present day Okayama Prefecture, located about four hundred miles west of Kyoto.
		Honen's main concern was not to achieve high social status as was that of many priests in those days.
		Shinran (1173-1262) became a disciple of Honen in 1201 at the age of twenty-nine.
	www.jodo.org /about_hs/ho_life.html (2166 words)

	Parallel recognitions of Honen and Rennyo
		Honen founded the popular, independent movement of Pure Land teaching, while Rennyo, as a successor of Shinran, inspired the growth of Pure Land teaching religiously and socially in Muromachi Japan.
		Honen Shonin made a clear effort to place the Pure Land teaching among the Mahayana sects by developing a critical classification of doctrine.
		It is not only Honen Shonin's message of hope afterlife that modern people need, but a direction for their everyday lives, lived in the awareness of Amida Buddha's embrace, made concrete in the Nembutsu whose recitation focuses our minds and hearts on the very basis of our lives.
	www.shindharmanet.com /writings/parallel.htm (2612 words)

	Rev. Doami's January 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He soon became one of Honen’s top disciples to the point where he was challenged by other disciples for saying that, although in matters of learning and practice he was much inferior to Honen, his Shinjin and Honen’s were one and the same.
		When Honen was asked to comment on this, he answered that because his own Shinjin and Shinran’s Shinjin were both from Amida, they were one and the same.
		Honen’s answer above to the question of whether his and Shinran’s Shinjin were one and the same would seem to have ended this latter speculation, but apparently his disciples continued to maintain otherwise.
	www.bca-ocbc.org /Messages/Doami/DoamiMay2003.htm (383 words)

	Writings - Japanese Pure Land Buddhism
		Honen, however, was released from exile by imperial decree in December of the same year..
		Honen pressed resolutely ahead, however, and a lot of people followed him and were warmly received by him.
		Honen's knowledge about Buddhism is said to have been appreciated by his contemporaries as "the first and foremost in wisdom".
	www.threewheels.org.uk /writings_section_files/writings_talks_files/talks_12.htm (4316 words)

	Orange County Buddhist Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Honen had left the orthodox Tendai tradition, and was teaching his own form of Buddhism, focusing on the Nembutsu.
		Honen was becoming quite popular, but was receiving harsh criticism from the orthodox Buddhism.
		Honen helped to open Shinran’s heart and mind to beyond his ego self, to the truth of the Nembutsu.
	www.bca-ocbc.org /Messages/Harada/HaradaJan2002.htm (1490 words)

	Life and teachings (from Honen) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Honen was the only son of Uruma Tokikuni, a regional military chief, who on his deathbed instructed his young son to enter the priesthood.
		After a period of local instruction, Honen at age 15 was sent to Mount Hiei, the monastic centre of the Tendai sect of Buddhism.
		Honen came under the influence of the Pure Land doctrine, which taught salvation by the mercy of Amida (or Amitabha…
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-3284?tocId=3284 (813 words)

	Vista View Feb 2003
		Honen Shonin's teaching of impartiality of all people before Amida Buddha ran counter to the class system which the government imposed.
		Regent Kujo Yoshitsune, whose father was a strong supporter of Honen Shonin, passed judgment, which amounted to merely a light censure of the Nembutsu followers.
		Honen Shonin (who was then 75 years old) was sent to Shikoku.
	www.vbtemple.org /vistaview/2003/vv0302.htm (1021 words)

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		Yet, the fact remains that even with Honen’s emphasis on the Vow, his practice of reciting the nembutsu could still be regarded as a self-power practice.
		According to Shan-tao and Honen the ‘deep mind of entrusting’ is the harmonious combination of the ‘three minds’.
		To Honen the recitation of nembutsu is a necessary practice in order to deepen and strengthen the mind of entrusting without which emancipation from the world of suffering is impossible.
	www.akshin.net /pureland/pl-purelandbuddhism-parttwo.htm (4133 words)

	History of Pure land Buddhism - Chapter 7
		Honen has no difficulty in showing that those are exercises too hard for ordinary men; besides, the nembutsu practised in them does not really have as its aim the obtaining from Amida of rebirth in his Land, but of realising immediately, in samadhi (ecstasy), the universal identity.
		Honen himself one day said: “I have never passed a single day without reading the Scriptures, except the day when Kiso kwanja invaded the capital.” But later on the nembutsu was to monopolise him totally.
		Honen was able to recall these remarks by Genshin: “If it is necessary as in the esoteric or exoteric sects, to trust only to one’s own intelligence and one’s own virtues, how could beings as stupid as I dream of their salvation?” (Quoted in Linossier Miscellanies, vol.
	www.bdcu.org.au /BDDR/bddr12no6/pureland7.html (5899 words)

	Pure Land, Dogen Zen
		Honen broke with the traditional views of other Buddhists who looked to a variety of teachings and instead advocated the single-minded recitation of the nembutsu, Namu Amida Butsu.
		Honen was known for his broad and deep philosophical understanding, the purity of his observance of the precepts, and his ability to cultivate various states of meditation including visualizations.
		Honen taught that the unfolding of Amida's compassion and wisdom was felt in this life, but birth in the Pure Land in the next.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~munno/OregonCourses/PHIL2130004/R255_Pure_Land,_Dogen_Zen.html (1968 words)

	Origins of Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Honen is the seventh of the Seven Patriarchs.
		As a student of Honen, Shinran focused solely on the Bodhisattva Dharmakara’s promise to provide an easy means for the enlightenment of all beings.
		Honen was exiled from Kyoto, to southern Japan and Shinran was exiled to the north.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /pureland/origins_of_true_pure_land_buddhi.htm (394 words)

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		April 14: With Honen’s permission, Shinran has copied Honen’s Pure Land masterpiece, the Senjaku-hongan nembutsu-shu; Honen inscribes the copy with "Namu Amida Butsu – the basis for the act of rebirth is the nembutsu".
		Honen is banished to Tosa and his major disciples are either exiled or executed.
		Shinran is exiled to Kokufu in the Echigo district.
	www.akshin.net /pureland/shinranlifework.htm (1592 words)

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		Honen, for Shinran, was the embodiment of Seishi Bosatsu, as the expression of the Wisdom of Amida.
		When Shinran thought about the great privilege Honen gave him, he exclaimed: What a joy it is, that I place my mind in the soil of the Buddha's Universal Vow and I let my thoughts flow into the Sea of Inconceivable Dharma.
		Shinran expressed gratitude not only to Honen, as central as he was, but to all the preceding teachers who gave direction and meaning to the teaching from earliest times.
	www.aloha.net /~rtbloom/shinran/abloom/sermon_7.txt (1257 words)

	The Jodo Schools
		The Jodo or Pure Land School, were founded by the teacher Honen Daishi based on the Pure Land Sutras written about Amithaba Buddha (The Buddha of the East), who had made a vow to save all who call his name.
		Honen Daishi taught that the Buddha Amida had vowed to save anyone who called his name.
		Honen's Senchaku Shu was matched by Nichirenists who taught that Nichiren was the true Buddha and Shakyamuni a provisional one, and that all of Shakyamuni's teachings were heretical.
	www.geocities.com /chris_holte/Buddhism/IssuesInBuddhism/jodo.html (2484 words)

	UH Press: Books and Journals published by the University of Hawaii Press
		Honen Bo Genku (1133-1212), or simply Honen, is one of the most outstanding figures in the long history of Japanese Buddhism.
		This volume is the culmination of an eight-year project of the Taisho University Center for Comprehensive Buddhist Studies (Sogo Bukkyo Kenkyujo) led by Professor Hirokawa Takatoshi.
		In the style of scholarship prevalent during this period, Honen presents this spiritual vision through adapted textual passages from the Pure Land tradition.
	www.uhpresshawaii.com /cart/shopcore?db_name=uhpress&page=shop/flypage&product_sku=0-8248-2110-6 (237 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Self-awareness During Dharma Study
		Honen said that the only important thing for him was to learn from his teacher.
		Before Shinran met Honen, he had thought that a Buddha was a teacher, a respected and worshipped person.
		But in the second stage, i.e., after he met Honen, Shinran realized that the essence of Buddhahood was humility—studentship and insight into evilness and ignorance.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=3574 (3135 words)

	Honen Biography / Biography of Honen Main Biography
		The Japanese Buddhist monk Honen (1133-1212) is considered the real founder of Japanese Amidism in the form of the Pure Land sect, or Jodoshu.
		Honen was the son of an official of Mimasaka Province whose dying wish was that Honen become a monk.
		In 1207, as a result of a misunderstanding with the emperor Toba II, Honen was exiled to Tosa.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-honen (445 words)

	What Is Shin Buddhism? by Dr. Nobuo Haneda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The most important event in Shinran's life was his meeting with Honen (1133-1212), the founder of the Jodo School, when Shinran was twenty-nine.
		Thus in the first stage, i.e., before he met Honen, Shinran thought that a Buddha was a "good" and "wise" person, and Shinran made efforts to become such a Buddha.
		But in the second stage, i.e., after he met Honen, Shinran realized that the essence of Buddhahood was humility--studentship and insight into evilness and ignorance.
	www.livingdharma.org /Living.Dharma.Articles/WhatIsShinBuddhism-Haneda.html (2268 words)

	A Raft from the Other Shore : Honen and the Way of Pure Land Buddhism (Sho-on Hattori) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Although Honen received his ordination and training in the Tendai tradition of Mahayana Buddhism, he eventually broke with this school and established the Pure Land way of refuge in Amida Buddha as an independent path for the first time.
		Honen was also the teacher of Shinran who was another great master of the Pure Land tradition of Buddhism.
		Although Honen held the established monastic schools of his day in great respect, he became convinced that they were only suitable for an increasing few who had exceptional abilities and gifts in meditation and the observance of precepts.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/4883633292.htm (1864 words)

	Angel Investor News.com
		Honen, a corporate lawyer, has become one of the driving forces for the Tech Valley Angels, based in the Albany, NY area.
		Honen also likes business plans that show the company reaching a profitable level in a couple of quarters.
		Honen also recommends that entrepreneurs consider attending the Smart Start Venture Forum in the Albany, NY area Oct. 2-3 (contact www.SmartStartVF.com).
	www.angel-investor-news.com /angelprofiles13.htm (471 words)

	Honen -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was seminal in establishing Pure Land pietism as one of the central forms of Buddhism in Japan.
		Introduced as a student monk to Pure Land doctrines brought from China by Tendai priests, he stressed nembutsu (Japanese: recitation of the name of Amida Buddha) as the one practice necessary for...
		Buddhist philosopher and religious reformer whose concern for the salvation of the masses apart from those endowed with self-enlightenment led him to establish (1224) the Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land sect), the largest school of Buddhism in modern Japan.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9040929?tocId=9040929 (459 words)

	Harold Stewart on Once-calling and Many-calling. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It was left for Shinran Shonin, who should be counted as the Eighth Patriarch of Pure Land Buddhism, to turn this quantitative approach of Honen into the qualitative Nembutsu by advocating the principle of Once-Calling by Amida.
		Even during Honen's lifetime, various misunderstandings and deviant views had arisen among his disciples and their followers regarding the correct method of invocation of the Name.
		Honen's disciple Kasai was accused of claiming that the devotee need Only call Amida once, and if he did teach this heterodox interpretation, then his master was justified in expelling him from his new Jodo sect.
	www.nembutsu.info /hsroncec.htm (717 words)

	Shinran Shonin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Frustrated to the point of feeling a total failure, he came down from Mt. Hiei (the monastic stronghold of Tendai Buddhism) at age 28 and sought guidance through meditation for 100 days at the shrine of Prince Shotoku.
		Honen broke through Shinran's shell of hardened self-power and allowed him to directly experience the saving power of Amida Buddha's Primal Vow.
		Honen, Shinran and others were persecuted by the Tendai establishment, which succeeded in convincing the emperor to banish Honen and his followers and prohibit the Nembutsu.
	web.mit.edu /stclair/www/shinran.html (616 words)

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