"Anrakushu" - Anrakushu

Japanese: 《安楽集》 - あんらくしゅう

…While Donluan’s Pure Land Buddhism tended to be centered on the Sutra of Immeasurable Life, Doshaku, who was active in the Sui and early Tang dynasties, and his disciple Zendo preached mainly on the Sutra of Contemplation of Immeasurable Life. Doshaku’s main work, the Anrakushu, is considered to be a compilation of lectures on the Sutra of Contemplation of Immeasurable Life. Zendo went to the national capital of Chang’an to educate the masses, wrote the Commentary on the Sutra of Contemplation of Immeasurable Life, and systematically organized the Pure Land doctrines of Donluan and Doshaku, and also painted paintings such as “The Transformation of Pure Land.” …

From [Dōchō]

…However, while Donran's Pure Land Buddhism had a strong tendency to emphasize the Sutra of Immeasurable Life, Doshaku, who felt that the age of the Latter Days of the Law had arrived after he was forced to return to secular life due to the abolition of Buddhism, emphasized the Sutra of Contemplation of Immeasurable Life, which has a dramatic structure beginning with the tragedy of Rajagriha and presents in a step-by-step manner the specific method for laypeople to attain rebirth in the Pure Land, and preached on it. His main work, Anrakushu, is a commentary on the Sutra of Contemplation of Immeasurable Life. His doctrine was passed down to his disciple Zendo and perfected. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Anrakushu" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…曇鸞の浄土教が《無量寿経》を中心とする傾向が強かったのに対し，隋･唐初に活躍した道綽と，その門下の善導とは，《観無量寿経》を中心に説法教化した。道綽の主著たる《安楽集》は《観無量寿経》の講義説法を集録した綱要書とされている。善導は，国都の長安に出て民衆を教化し，《観無量寿経疏》を著して曇鸞，道綽の浄土教義を整然と組織化するとともに，〈浄土変相〉などの絵画を描いた。…

【道綽】より

…しかし，曇鸞の浄土教が《無量寿経》を重視する傾向が強かったのに対し，廃仏による還俗を強制され末法の時代が到来したと実感した道綽は，王舎城の悲劇に始まるという劇的構成をもち在家者の浄土往生の具体的方法を順序だてて提示する《観無量寿経》を重視して説法教化した。主著《安楽集》は《観無量寿経》の解説書である。彼の教義は門下の善導に受け継がれ大成される。…

※「《安楽集》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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