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What is Shin Buddhism
Title: What is Shin Buddhism
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What is Shin Buddhism
Shin Buddhism was the creation of Shinran Shonin, who lived in Japan around 800 years ago. He saw, as did Buddha, that what stands in the way of our awakening to the Dharma is really only us. Specifically, it is our ego, or that illusion we have that we are a fixed and separate entity apart from everything else. Thus, Shin Buddhism starts by getting us to see our egocentric, arrogant and self-centered nature. Shin Buddhism "…showed first 75 words of 615 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 615 total…our self (humility). Amida Butsu (Amida Buddha) expresses the recognition that our futility is embraced and liberated by the Dharma. In other words, "bow to" (seek the truth) and be saved by the Dharma.
To Shinran Shonin, these two terms, Shinjin and Namu Amida Butsu, are all we need to live if we where Buddhists.
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Compton’s Encyclopedia on AOL
Columbia Concise on AOL
“What is Shin Buddhism” By Franklin E. Zimring ©1994
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