vasubandh

Updated: May 23, 2025

What man could know the unsearchable mystery of the faith and deeds of the Divine Promise were it not for that most excelling commentary of Donran the wise Priest, which he wrote concerning the teaching of Vasubandh that had lived aforetime.

Shinran - Wisdom of the East : Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin

Vasubandh, that exalted master of excelling works, who himself hath found refuge in the Buddha of Infinite Light, hath declared that whoso is borne in the Vehicle of the Divine Promise shall without doubt attain unto the Promised Land.

Shinran - Wisdom of the East : Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin

But through that only way of the meditation of the Highest did we attain unto the final deliverance that hath destroyed all our sin." Among those doctrines taught of our Lord Vasubandh, the great priest hath persuaded us who are full of sinful desires to accept the Divine Promise of our infinite Father. Only to Him who is above all things is known the glory of the Land of Peace.

Shinran - Wisdom of the East : Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin

And when we shall have attained unto that height which is desire for the ingathering of all beings into Paradise, shall we return again into this world that we may be Saviours of Men. And this is called the Gift of Returning. That "Single Mind" expounded unto us by Vasubandh, the Master of Writings that excel, is nothing other than the faith of us that are now fast bound in illusion.

Shinran - Wisdom of the East : Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin