親鸞の宗教体験と表現（中） : 三願転入の時期をめぐる諸問題

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My aim in this paper will be to discuss the significance of the Dialectic of the Three Vows (DTV) as an expression of Shinran's religious experience. The passage on the DTV cited at the beginning of the paper, that marks Shinran's religious experience of entering into the other power of the Eighteenth Vow, ends with the statement, “Having forever entered the ocean of the Vow, I now realize deeply the Buddha's benevolence”. Here I would like to consider the relation between the meaning of “now” and “forever” as found in this passage. Historically, the “one-time” character of Shinran's religious conversion is a temporal matter of having occurred in 1201 at Yoshimizu as a follower of Honen. However, the true religious meaning of this “one time” is that it is always present in the here-and now. It is a one time that is repeated continuously; it is the one time from that moment in history that is reappropriated or re-realized in every moment of the here-and-now. Rather than a nostalgic reflection on the past, the true appreciation of the “now” is a forward-looking, dynamic now that is open to everyone.
2010-01-00