Where can I learn more about Miokonin?
November 28, 2019 2:46 PM Subscribe
Alan Watts describes Pure Land Buddhism. He indicates something happens to followers of Amitabha. He says, "Miokonin in Japanese means a marvelous fine man. But the Miokonin in is a special type of personality who corresponds in the West to the holy fool in Russian spirituality, or to something like the Franciscan in Catholic spirituality."
Where can I learn more about Miokonin?
I cannot find anything meaningful with that term, and I'm unsure how to backward translate it into Japanese to search that way.
I cannot find anything meaningful with that term, and I'm unsure how to backward translate it into Japanese to search that way.
Compare mensch as well, perhaps.
Not as though this were a cultural universal (as that is not a thing) but for where it overlaps, and doesn’t.
posted by snuffleupagus at 5:45 PM on November 28, 2019
Not as though this were a cultural universal (as that is not a thing) but for where it overlaps, and doesn’t.
posted by snuffleupagus at 5:45 PM on November 28, 2019
Heatherlogan has it right. Do a search on that spelling of the word. There are numerous websites that talk about these followers!
posted by Hanuman1960 at 7:55 AM on November 29, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Hanuman1960 at 7:55 AM on November 29, 2019 [1 favorite]
Contact a Shin / Jodo Shinshu temple in your area and ask, honestly. Online resources for Buddhist stuff, at least in my own tradition, tend to be short on context or a little wonky.
posted by nixon's meatloaf at 5:24 PM on December 4, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by nixon's meatloaf at 5:24 PM on December 4, 2019 [2 favorites]
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