Buddhist Psalms by Shinran read by Geoffrey Edwards | Full Audio Book

Buddhist Psalms by Shinran (1173 - 1263)
Genre(s): Other religions

Read by: Geoffrey Edwards in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Introduction
00:23:35 - 01 - Lauding the Infinite One
00:37:24 - 02 - Of Paradise
00:42:11 - 03 - Concerning the Great Sutra
00:52:02 - 04 - Concerning the Sutra of the Meditation
00:56:48 - 05 - Concerning the Lesser Sutra
00:59:36 - 06 - Of the Many Sutras Concerning the Infinite One
01:03:52 - 07 - Concerning the Welfare of the Present World
01:13:22 - 08 - Of Thanksgiving for Nagarjuna, the Great Teacher of India
01:18:07 - 09 - Of Thanksgiving for Vasubandh, the Great Teacher of India
01:23:07 - 10 - Of Thanksgiving for Donran, the Great Teacher of China
01:35:02 - 11 - Concerning Unrighteous Deeds
01:38:10 - 12 - Concerning Doshaku-Zenji
01:41:41 - 13 - Concerning Zendo-Daishi
01:54:05 - 14 - Concerning Genshin-Sozu
01:58:38 - 15 - Concerning Hōnen Shōnin
02:07:18 - 16 - Of the Three Periods
02:29:16 - 17 - Concerning Belief and Doubt
02:39:19 - 18 - In Praise of Prince Shotoku
02:44:42 - 19 - Wherein with Lamentation I Make My Confession
02:51:49 - 20 - Additional Psalms

Written by Shinran Shōnin (親鸞聖人, 1173-1263), the founder of Jōdo Shinshū (浄土真宗), the Shin sect of Pure Land Buddhism.Translated from the Japanese by Shūgaku Yamabe (山辺修覚) and Lily Adams Beck.These Jōdo-Wasan (浄土和讃), or Psalms of the Pure Land are a part not only of the literature, but also of the daily worship and spiritual life of Japan.The development of Mahayana Buddhism from the teaching of the Gautama Buddha has been often compared with that of the Christian faith from the Jewish, but it may be better compared with the growth of a sacerdotal system from the simplicities of the Gospel of St. Mark. That the development should have been on the same lines in all essential matters of symbol and (in the most important respects) of doctrine, modified only by Eastern habits of thought and environment, is a miracle of coincidence which cannot be paralleled in the world unless it be granted that Christianity filtering along the great trade routes of an earlier world joined hands with Buddhism in many unsuspected ways and places. (From Lily's introduction)Cover: Buddhist Psalms by cartoonist Robin Bougie (2026), released by him into the public domain.Special thanks to Rino Iwashita, a student at Akita International University, for her help with Japanese pronunciation.