Abstract
Finally, this chapter takes up how the nenbutsu teaching of the Ōjōyōshū was interpreted by the Kamakura period Pure Land monk Hōnen. Hōnen created a revolution in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism by advocating the “exclusive nenbutsu,” or the notion that the sole practice needed to achieve birth in the Pure Land is the recitation of “Namu Amidabutsu.” This chapter recounts how Hōnen interpreted the Ōjōyōshū in the light of his notion of exclusive nenbutsu, in order to appropriate Genshin’s text to lend authority to the exclusive nenbutsu teaching.
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