This is such an interesting story! What does Amida's quote mean though?
Eikan, stop dawdling
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This is such an interesting story! What does Amida's quote mean though?
Eikan, stop dawdling
Eikan stopped reciting since he was amazed by the sight of Amida, so Amida told him to keep moving and reciting
That’s interesting what that implies doctrinally, somewhat goes against Jodo Shinshu for a more traditional (Chinese) understanding of focus on Amida, not being saved through saying it once.
Pure Land Buddhism is quite different between Mainland and Japan, I think it is always better to go to the source, aka the Pure Land sutras. Saying once in full sincerity is in theory enough, since Amida Vows are already fulfilled since it became a Buddha, so a practitioner’s rebirth “already” happened.
Yeah of course, there are many different lines of thinking in both countries. Always interesting.
Is there a link to read more? Is this the temple? It seems it is this temple.
Is the guys name Eikan or Yokan? This website calls him Yokan but the kanji is the same. Now I see the Japanese wiki also says Yokan.
Interesting the temps name implies Zen, was founded by Kukai’s Shingon pupil Shinsho, but became a pure land temple under Eikan.
Yes it’s the right one. The guy’s name is Yōkan, however he was commonly known as Eikan, it said on the Temple page too