- 著者
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石田 慶和
- 出版者
- 宗教哲学会
- 雑誌
- 宗教哲学研究 (ISSN:02897105)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.10, pp.1-13, 1993 (Released:2018-03-29)
K. Nishitani’s treaties on Pure Land Buddhism are not so much in comparison with those of Zen Buddhism, but there are very important understandings in them.
For instance, in “Religion and Nothingness” (translated by J. v. Bragt) Nishitani says, “In religion, however, faith comes about only on a horizon where this field has been overstepped and the framework of the ‘ego’ has been broken through.”(p. 26) “Faith, in contrast, marks the point at which the self is really and truly a solitary self, and really and truly becomes the self itself. At the same time, however, this faith is not simply a thing of the self, but takes on the shape of a reality.”(p. 27) “This reality comes about at once as the absolute negation and the absolute affirmation of the solitary self.”(ibid.) “The moment one pure act of faith (信の一念)springs up, this faith is constituted as a state of nonregression (不退転)through which the believer enters a state of ‘right confirmation (正定聚)’. This is so because this faith is not merely a conscious act of the self, but an actualization within the self of the reality we have been speaking of.”(p. 28)
Those understandings are very essential in the Shinran’s thought. We shall be able to realize the true meaning of “shinjin (faith)” in Shinran from the universal viewpoint by them.