St. Shinran as a Lreader of the Life-long Education: A Study of his philosophy Living of a Viewpoint of the Educational Philosophy

They say that it is very difficult to read about Gutokusho, a two-fascicle work written by Shinran in 1255. Gutoku is one of his names. It means that he is neither monk layman. Gutokusho tells us what his life-long integrated education was, since he met his life-long teacher, St. Honen. The textbook of the life-long education has four headlines of mysterious 28 words. They have plenty of educational meanings. They tell us how to read step by step about the meanings of the existence of his life-long education. We miss the original text. But we are very happy to read three most important copies in the temples of Senjyuji in Mie Pref., Jyorakuji in Kyoto Pref., and Jyokoji in Niigata Pref.. The comparison of them shows us what the original may be. It has many guide stones for us. Four line epigragh in both parts of it has marks for guidance in rendering Chinese into Japanese. But the marks of epigraph in Part Two are unusually more detailed than in Part One. It tells us to read from Part Two to Part One. The construction of the marks is a very important guidepost for us. Each part has seven sentences with the clause "we ought to know that so & so." The seven but the last sentence in Part Two form three pairs of sentences in order. The seven but the first sentence in Part One also form three pairs. And the last sentence in Part Two pairs with the first sentence in Part One. So 14 sentences form seven pairs. From the first to fourth pairs form the introduction, development, turn and conclusion. And so from the fourth to the seventh do the same. The seven pairs are methodologically our main guide posts