Ojo and Death: Honen’s Teachings, Practices and Experiences

Ojo and Death: Honen’s Teachings, Practices and Experiences

Spiritual Preparation for Death

Death-Bed Practices

Post-Mortem

Controversy: Suicide and the Attainment of Ojo

Honen’s Death and Ojo

All selections, except where noted, come from the Pictorial Biography of Honen Shonin (Honen Shonin gyojoezu), also known as the Forty-eight Fascicle Biography (Shijuhachikan-den). The translation is from Honen the Buddhist Saint: His Life and Teaching by Harper Havelock Coates and Ryugaku Ishizuka, Chion-in: 1925.