日本净土思想的源流及其法然上人的《选择集》

日本的净土信仰是随着汉译经典的传入而流传到日本的,在日本的古代和中世广为流行,十二世纪后期由法然上人创立了净土宗,从而使日本佛教走向平民,并完成了日本本土化的过程。净土思想的兴起以及法然净土宗的诞生,究其缘由无疑是来自于末法思想在当时时代的流行。法然提出了专修念佛的思想,并将《无量寿经》、《观无量寿经》、《阿弥陀经》视为净土宗所依据的根本经典,他所撰写的《选择本愿念佛集》是该宗派的思想理论的集大成之著作。

The Origion of the Pureland Faith&Honen shonin's Teachings

S the country, The pread to Japan accompanied by the importation of translated Chinese classics into Pureland Faith was so popular in ancient and middle ages that it led to the birth of the Jodo Sect founded by Mater Honen in the late 12th century. Undoubtedly, the rise of the Pureland Faith and the Jodo Sect was, in essence, due to the popularity of the theory concerning about the last stage of Buddhism at that time. The Japanese Jodo Sect accepted all around the theory advocated by Mater Shandao who was the founder of the Chinese Jodo Sect, while Master Honen was the very successor who gathered together the cream parts of the theory.