The Shinran Manifesto: Concerning Shin Semiotics #4 - Shinran’s Deliberately Simple-Minded Dharma
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005This is the fourth of four posts that I am writing to answer a question posed by a Shin Buddhist dharma friend named Ray.
Ray asks why I think that “Shin Semiotics” - the view of modern Shin Buddhist scholars - that Amida Buddha is symbol and mythos rather than a real person - is such a lamentable diversion, and so harmful to the propagation of Shinran’s teaching. (more…)