April 23, 2024
Japanese Hanging Scroll : "SHINRAN no ISHIMAKURA" @k996
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DESCRIPTION Japanese Hanging Scroll : "SHINRAN no ISHIMAKURA" @k996 *Shinran : Shinran (1173-1263) was a Japanese Buddhist monk, who was born in Hino (now a part of Fushimi, Kyoto) at the close of the Heian Period and lived during the Kamakura Period, a time when the Shoguns lost their rule to their militaries. Shinran was a pupil of Honen and the founder of the Jodo Shinshu (or True Pure Land) sect in Japan. It was during this era that Japanese Buddhism, which had been declining into formalism for several centuries, underwent intense renewal, giving birth to new paths to enlightenment and spreading to every level of society. *Story of Ishi makura (a stone pillow) : Hino zaemon was a man of the ex-convicts, the money lender and the misanthropy. He repels Shinran whom he was going to borrow crash pad from for a snowstorm flatly. Shinran was obliged to lay with his head on a stone which t was in the edge of the eaves. At midnight, he was admonished it by the Kannon appeared in his dream, and invited Shinran in his house. Then he confessed past evildoing to Shinran . "Even if it is a really dirty heart, anyone has the faith. The heart is just etarnal Buddha's light". He received the teaching from Shinran and became a his disciple on the day. SAL (Surface Air Lifted) EMS (Express Mail Service) North AmericaCentral AmericaOceania
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