『往生要集』における「凡夫」の検討 : 「凡夫」とは「利智精進の人」を指すか

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In investigating the use of the term “unenlightened person” (bonbu 凡夫) in Genshin’s 源信 Essentials of Rebirth (Ōjōyōshū 往生要集), one finds that Genshin often uses the term to mean a beginning practitioner rather than to mean “the unenlightened person” who still has afflictions (bonnō 煩悩). Although Genshin regards himself as in the lower level (gebon 下品) among the nine levels (kubon 九品) of rebirth in Pure Land based on the Contemplation S?tra on the Buddha of Immeasurable Life (Kanmuryōjukyō 観無量寿経) he describes a person in this same lower level as merely a “wrongdoer entangled in afflictions” (gubaku zōaku no nin 具縛造悪の人) rather than as an “unenlightened person.”
2010-01-00