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Huaigan (懷感; c. 7th century) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who was the leading student of the Pure Land patriarch Shandao (613–681) and key systematizer of Chinese Pure land thought.[1][2] The Japanese Pure Land teacher Hōnen designated Huaigan as the fourth patriarch of Pure Land Buddhism in the Jōdo-shū tradition.[3][4]
According to Ming-wood Liu "his representative and only extant work, the Shì Jìngtǔ Qún Yí Lùn [釋淨土群疑論, Treatise Explaining a Number of Doubts on Pure Land, T 1960], was a brilliant attempt at Pure Land apologetics, providing replies to virtually all the criticisms which had been raised against Pure Land ideas and practices."[1]
Huaigan's work remained influential on other Chinese figures like Yongming Yanshou and the Tiantai monk Zunshi (964-1032 C.E.).[5][6] Huaigan was also important to Japanese Pure Land authors like Genshin.[7]
- ^ a b Liu; Ming-wood (2002-09-01). "The Life of Huaigan and His Conception of the Nature of the Buddha Amitabha and the Pure Land [懷感的生平和佛身、佛土思想]". Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy [中國文哲研究集刊] (in Chinese) (21): 117–140.
- ^ Marchman, Kendall R. Huaigan and the Growth of Pure Land Buddhism During the Tang Era, Phd Diss. 2015.
- ^ "The Five Pure Land Patriarchs". Koloa Jodo Mission- Buddhist Temple. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
- ^ Marchman 2015, pp. 15-16.
- ^ Marchman 2015, p. 143.
- ^ Lopez, Donald (editor). Buddhism in Practice, pp. 274-275. Princeton Readings in Religions, Princeton University Press.
- ^ Rhodes, Robert F. (2017). Genshin's Ōjōyōshū and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan (Pure Land Buddhist Studies). University of Hawaii Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0824872489.
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