悪人正機

JAPONCA → TR

Tanım

•creed avowing that it is the Original Vow of the Amida Buddha to save the wicked; those who acknowledge their wickedness shall be saved

Etimoloji

Yojijukugo (四字熟語), from 悪人(あくにん) (akunin, “bad person”) + 正機(しょうき) (shōki, “meeting the conditions to receive Buddhahood”). A central tenet of Shinran's Pure Land Buddhism is that it is impossible for ordinary people to be saved purely through one's own efforts, only through the boundless, unknowable grace of the Amida Buddha. This term therefore capitulates that only those who recognize…