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觀經名目證據十七箇條

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Text ID
KR6t0333
Date
1247–1271
Dynasty
日本

Guānjīng míngmù zhèngjù shíqī gètiáo 觀經名目證據十七箇條

Seventeen-Article Citation-of-Evidence for the Guān-jīng Terminology by 淨音 Jōon (記)

About the work

A single-fascicle question-and-answer doctrinal compendium in seventeen articles by 淨音 Jōon (1201–1271), founder of the Saidani / Senjō-ji sub-line of the Seizan branch of Jōdoshū. The work is organized as seventeen articles, each formulated as a question on a key technical term from the Guānjīng 觀經 (the Sūtra on the Contemplation of Amitāyus) and answered by Jōon with explicit zhèngjù 證據 — citation of canonical evidence from Shàndǎo’s Guānjīng shū and other authorities. The genre is a hybrid of catechism and scholastic gloss, optimized for monastic training in the Saidani sub-line.

Abstract

The articles cover the central technical vocabulary of the Guānjīng and its Pure-Land exegesis:

  1. The body and speech of the Buddha (佛體佛語之事) — the doctrinal distinction between Amitābha’s dharmakāya and his verbal teaching;
  2. The seven elements of the Contemplation Sūtra’s seventh contemplation (the Amitābha vision-contemplation) — addressing the honji visualisation;
  3. Pure-Land cosmology — the structure of the Western Pure Land as set out in the sūtra;
  4. The Three Minds (三心) as a unified faith-mind, in the standard Seizan-line jōdo reading;
  5. The doctrine of nine grades of rebirth (九品往生) and its relation to the kihō ichinyo doctrine; 6.–17. Specific technical terms — jōzen (disciplined-good), sanzen (dispersed-good), honji-suijaku, raigō, gosshō (karmic obstruction), rinjū shōnen (final-moment nenbutsu), kanjō (vision-contemplation), raidan (welcoming-platform), and so on — each treated in question-and-answer form with explicit canonical citation.

The work serves as the principal training-text for the Saidani sub-line and was used in conjunction with Jōon’s other major work KR6t0334 Seizan kuketsu denmitsu-shō — the former addressing the Guānjīng terminology directly, the latter setting out the oral-transmission position on each topic.

Date. Jōon’s mature period as Saidani master, c. 1247–1271; no internal precise date.

Translations and research

No Western-language translation has been located. The Saidani sub-line is treated in: Fujimoto Kiyohiko 藤本淨彦, Seizan jōdokyō no kenkyū 西山浄土教の研究 (Hōzōkan, 1988); Itō Yuishin 伊藤唯眞, Jōdo-shū no seiritsu to tenkai (Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 1981); critical text in Seizan zensho 西山全書 (1928–35).

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