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  • Preface
  • The Major Expositions
    • Chapter on Teaching 1-7
    • Chapter on Practice 1-102
    • Chapter on Shinjin 1-122
    • Chapter on Realization 1-17
    • Chapter on True Buddha and Land 1-39
    • Chapter on Transformed Buddha-Bodies and Lands 1-121
    • Passages on the Pure Land Way
    • Questions and Answers
  • Hymns in Japanese
    • Hymns of the Pure Land
      • Prefatory Hymns 1-2
      • Hymns Based on Gathas in Praise of Amida Buddha 3-50
      • Hymns on the Larger Sutra 51-72
      • Hymns on the Contemplation Sutra 73-81
      • Hymns on the Amida Sutra 82-86
      • Hymns to Amida Based on Various Sutras 87-95
      • Hymns on Benefits in the Present 96-110
      • Hymns on Mahasthamaprapta 111-118
    • Hymns of the Pure Land Masters
      • Bodhisattva Nagarjuna 1-10
      • Bodhisattva Vasubandhu 11-20
      • Master T’an-luan 21-54
      • Master Tao-ch’o 55-61
      • Master Shan-tao 62-87
      • Master Genshin 88-97
      • Master Genku (Honen) 98-117
      • Concluding Hymns 118-119
    • Hymns of the Dharma-Ages
      • Prefatory Hymn 1
      • Pure Land Hymns on the Right, Semblance, and Last Dharma-Ages 2-59
      • Hymns on the Offense of Doubting the Primal Vow 60-82
      • Hymns in Praise of Prince Shotoku 83-93
      • Gutoku’s Hymns of Lament and Reflection 94-109
      • Additional Hymns of Lament on the Term Hotoke 110-114
      • Concluding Hymns 115-116
      • On Jinen honi
    • Hymns in Praise of Prince Shotoku
      • Part One: Hymns 1-25
      • Part Two: Hymns 26-50
      • Part Three: Hymns 51-75
  • Commentaries
    • Notes on ‘Essentials of Faith Alone’
    • Notes on Once-Calling and Many-Calling
    • Notes on the Inscriptions of Sacred Scrolls
  • Letters
    • Lamp for the Latter Ages
    • A Collection of Letters
    • A Collection of Letters (Zensho Text)
    • Letters of the Tradition
    • Uncollected Letters
  • Shorter Works
    • Gutoku’s Notes
    • Hymn of the Two Gateways of Entrance and Emergence
    • Passages on the Two Aspects of the Tathagata’s Directing of Virtue
    • A Collection of Passages on the Types of Birth in the Three Pure Land Sutras
    • The Virtue of the Name of Amida Tathagata
  • Related Works
    • A Record in Lament of Divergences
    • Essentials of Faith Alone
    • Clarification of Once-Calling and Many-Calling

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Hymns of the Pure Land Masters

  • Bodhisattva Nagarjuna 1-10
  • Bodhisattva Vasubandhu 11-20
  • Master T’an-luan 21-54
  • Master Tao-ch’o 55-61
  • Master Shan-tao 62-87
  • Master Genshin 88-97
  • Master Genku (Honen) 98-117
  • Concluding Hymns 118-119
  • Preface
  • The Major Expositions
    • Chapter on Teaching 1-7
    • Chapter on Practice 1-102
    • Chapter on Shinjin 1-122
    • Chapter on Realization 1-17
    • Chapter on True Buddha and Land 1-39
    • Chapter on Transformed Buddha-Bodies and Lands 1-121
    • Passages on the Pure Land Way
    • Questions and Answers
  • Hymns in Japanese
    • Hymns of the Pure Land
      • Prefatory Hymns 1-2
      • Hymns Based on Gathas in Praise of Amida Buddha 3-50
      • Hymns on the Larger Sutra 51-72
      • Hymns on the Contemplation Sutra 73-81
      • Hymns on the Amida Sutra 82-86
      • Hymns to Amida Based on Various Sutras 87-95
      • Hymns on Benefits in the Present 96-110
      • Hymns on Mahasthamaprapta 111-118
    • Hymns of the Pure Land Masters
      • Bodhisattva Nagarjuna 1-10
      • Bodhisattva Vasubandhu 11-20
      • Master T’an-luan 21-54
      • Master Tao-ch’o 55-61
      • Master Shan-tao 62-87
      • Master Genshin 88-97
      • Master Genku (Honen) 98-117
      • Concluding Hymns 118-119
    • Hymns of the Dharma-Ages
      • Prefatory Hymn 1
      • Pure Land Hymns on the Right, Semblance, and Last Dharma-Ages 2-59
      • Hymns on the Offense of Doubting the Primal Vow 60-82
      • Hymns in Praise of Prince Shotoku 83-93
      • Gutoku’s Hymns of Lament and Reflection 94-109
      • Additional Hymns of Lament on the Term Hotoke 110-114
      • Concluding Hymns 115-116
      • On Jinen honi
    • Hymns in Praise of Prince Shotoku
      • Part One: Hymns 1-25
      • Part Two: Hymns 26-50
      • Part Three: Hymns 51-75
  • Commentaries
    • Notes on ‘Essentials of Faith Alone’
    • Notes on Once-Calling and Many-Calling
    • Notes on the Inscriptions of Sacred Scrolls
  • Letters
    • Lamp for the Latter Ages
    • A Collection of Letters
    • A Collection of Letters (Zensho Text)
    • Letters of the Tradition
    • Uncollected Letters
  • Shorter Works
    • Gutoku’s Notes
    • Hymn of the Two Gateways of Entrance and Emergence
    • Passages on the Two Aspects of the Tathagata’s Directing of Virtue
    • A Collection of Passages on the Types of Birth in the Three Pure Land Sutras
    • The Virtue of the Name of Amida Tathagata
  • Related Works
    • A Record in Lament of Divergences
    • Essentials of Faith Alone
    • Clarification of Once-Calling and Many-Calling
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Collected Works of Shinran has been designed to present the entire body of Shinran's doctrinal writings in translations that are consistent in method, lucid, and reliable. English versions have been produced drawing on recent research in Buddhist, historical, and religious studies and on the rich tradition of Shin Buddhist scholarship. Special attention has been given to rendering Shinran's works with a high degree of literal accuracy, in the hope that the translations might thus serve effectively in guiding readers to an understanding of the core of his thought, the religious transformation termed shinjin.

The translations have been closely reviewed by a committee chaired by the General Editor of the Shin Buddhism Translation Series. Professor Yoshifumi Ueda served as General Editor from the start of the Series in 1978 to the year of his death in 1993, at the age of eighty-eight. He contributed formatively and substantially to the policies for translation and to a number of introductions and glossary entries. Professor Gadjin M. Nagao, who has been active in the project since its beginnings, has served as General Editor from 1993 to the present. The review committee, which has met monthly since 1978, at present includes, in addition to the translation staff: Professors Keiwa Ishida, Jitsuen Kakehashi, and Ryusei Takeda. In the past, Professors Ryosetsu Fujiwara, Mitsuyuki Ishida (deceased), Kenryo M. Kumata (deceased), Hakunin Matsuo, Michio Sato, and Shoho Takemura also served on this committee.

Throughout the project from its inception, the original drafts of the translations have been prepared by the Head Translator, Dennis Hirota, and then reviewed in weekly meetings with a committee of translators. This committee, which has also contributed to the introductions and other appended materials, at present includes Professors Hisao Inagaki, Michio Tokunaga, and Ryushin Uryuzu. In the past, Professors Taitetsu Unno and Fumimaro Watanabe (deceased) also served on this committee and contributed in particular to deliberations regarding translations of technical terms.

Invaluable assistance in the process of publication has been provided by Kimiko Hirota (editorial assistance and proofreading), Masako Sugimoto (proofreading and indexing), Yoshiharu Wake (list of terms), and W.S. Yokoyama (copy editing, book design, and cover).