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- Title
WŎNHYO'S PURE LAND THOUGHT ON BUDDHĀNUSMṚ TI IN ITS SINITIC BUDDHIST CONTEXT.
- Authors
MCBRIDE II, RICHARD D.
- Abstract
Wţnhyo (617-686) should not be classified as a member of a "Pure Land tradition" or "Pure Land school." Instead, he, like many of his intellectual forebears and contemporaries in medieval China, such as Tanluan (ca. 488-554), Jingying Huiyuan (523-592), Tiantai Zhiyi (538-597), Jizang (549-623), and Shandao (613-681), was more concerned with the way in which the doctrines and practices presented in the Pure Land sutras integrated with other aspects of Sinitic Mahayana Buddhism. Wŏnhyo's writings demonstrate an intimate knowledge of the state of doctrinal Buddhism in China, and he wrote to participate in the larger Sinitic Buddhist intellectual discourse. Although Wŏnhyo's Muryangsu-gyŏng chongyo (Doctrinal Essentials of the Wuliangshou jing) treats the Wuliangshoujing ([Larger] Sukhāvatīvyūha-sūtra), he did not ignore the Guan Wuliangshou jing (Sutra on the Visualization of the Buddha Amitayus). He was able to treat with precision the crucial passage of the latter scripture that deals with the meaning of the "ten recollections" (simnyŏn, Ch. shinian) and its relation to the practice of buddhānusmṛti (yŏmbul, Ch. nianfo) from within the context of the former sutra. Woŏhyo conceptualized both the ten recollections of the Mile fawen jing (Scripture on Questions asked by Maitreya) and the practice of chanting the name of the Buddha Amitabha for ten thought-moments as practices for people with inferior spiritual capacity. This probably reflects his belief that all people are capable of arousing the bodhicitta because all beings possess the Tathagatagarbha. Succeeding monastic scholiasts of Silla adopted many of Wŏnhyo's views but none completely shared his belief that the ten recollections of the Mile fawen jing are for people with limited mental capacity who hope to be reborn in the lowest order of rebirth in the Pure Land.
- Subjects
WONHYO, 617-686; PURE Land Buddhism; MAHAYANA Buddhism; SAMADHI; PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
Acta Koreana, 2015, Vol 18, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1520-7412
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18399/acta.2015.18.1.002