Jodo Gate

Japanese: 浄土門 - じょうどもん
Jodo Gate

It appears in the teachings established in Pure Land Buddhism, and is a term that contrasts with the Shodo-mon. More specifically, it is called the Ojo Jodo-mon, which means the teaching of going to the Pure Land and attaining enlightenment. In the Anraku-shu by Doshaku, the founder of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, he quotes the Mahasamasatra Sutra and teaches that in this age of the Latter Days of the Law, no one can attain enlightenment through self-training, but that the Jodo-mon is the only path that can lead anyone, no matter how evil they have committed, to attain Buddhahood. Honen (Genku), who established Japanese Pure Land Buddhism as an independent sect and perfected its teachings, divided the Pure Land sect into two types: one that truly explains the Pure Land, and the other that explains the Pure Land in a secondary way. He clarified that the former is the teaching of exclusive nembutsu, which is described in the "Three Pure Land Sutras" (the Sutra of Immeasurable Life, the Sutra of Contemplation of Immeasurable Life, and the Sutra of Amitabha) and Vasubandhu's Treatise on Pure Land. He taught that for foolish and evil people (ordinary people) in the Latter Day of the Law, the teaching of the Pure Land is the only way to attain Buddhahood, and that is to believe in the original vow and rely on the power of others and chant the Nembutsu.

[Uryuuzu Takamasa]

[Reference] | Holy Path Gate

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

浄土教においてたてている教判(きょうはん)に出るもので、聖道(しょうどう)門に対することば。詳しくは往生(おうじょう)浄土門といい、浄土に往生して悟りをひらく教えということ。中国浄土教の始祖道綽(どうしゃく)の『安楽集(あんらくしゅう)』には『大集月蔵経』を引用して、末法のいまの世においては、自力修行の道によって悟りをひらくものはだれもいないが、ただ浄土門だけがいかなる造悪の人も成仏(じょうぶつ)させる道である、と説かれている。日本浄土教を一宗として独立させ、その教えを大成した法然(ほうねん)(源空)は、浄土門について、一つはまさしく往生浄土を明かす教え、もう一つは傍らに往生浄土を明かす教えというように、2種類に分け、前者こそ「浄土三部経」(『無量寿経(むりょうじゅきょう)』『観無量寿経(かんむりょうじゅきょう)』『阿弥陀経(あみだきょう)』)および世親(せしん)の『浄土論』に説かれる専修(せんじゅ)念仏の教えであることを明らかにした。彼は、末法五濁(ごじょく)の世にある愚悪の人間(凡夫(ぼんぶ))にとって、この往生浄土の教えがただ一つ成仏を可能にする道であって、それが本願他力(ほんがんたりき)を信じて念仏を唱えることである、と説いた。

[瓜生津隆真]

[参照項目] | 聖道門

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