The Collected Works of Shinran (CWS)

The Collected Works of Shinran (CWS) is one of the most valuable Shin Buddhist resources.

It is the go-to source of reference for ‘Practicers’ of Jodo Shinshu. If you do not currently own a copy you can order one from Hongwanji International Center Book Shop, the BCA or other regional or local temples.
Link: https://international.hongwanji.or.jp/html/c3b7p1.html

You will also find the below website an invaluable resource for looking up and copying text from when you are studying, writing and sharing the teachings of Shinran Shonin.

Online version of the Collected Works of Shinran: http://shinranworks.com/

It is thanks to the laborious work of many that this resource is made available. For this we are all grateful. Gassho.

Below is the table of contents which link directly to the shinranworks.com website :

• Preface
• The Major Expositions
  • Chapter on Teaching 1-7
  • Chapter on Practice 1-102
  • Chapter on Shinjin 1-122
  • Chapter on Realization 1-17
  • Chapter on True Buddha and Land 1-39
  • Chapter on Transformed Buddha-Bodies and Lands 1-121
  • Passages on the Pure Land Way
  • Questions and Answers
• Hymns in Japanese
  • Hymns of the Pure Land
    • Prefatory Hymns 1-2
    • Hymns Based on Gathas in Praise of Amida Buddha 3-50
    • Hymns on the Larger Sutra 51-72
    • Hymns on the Contemplation Sutra 73-81
    • Hymns on the Amida Sutra 82-86
    • Hymns to Amida Based on Various Sutras 87-95
    • Hymns on Benefits in the Present 96-110
    • Hymns on Mahasthamaprapta 111-118
  • Hymns of the Pure Land Masters
    • Bodhisattva Nagarjuna 1-10
    • Bodhisattva Vasubandhu 11-20
    • Master T’an-luan 21-54
    • Master Tao-ch’o 55-61
    • Master Shan-tao 62-87
    • Master Genshin 88-97
    • Master Genku (Honen) 98-117
    • Concluding Hymns 118-119
  • Hymns of the Dharma-Ages
    • Prefatory Hymn 1
    • Pure Land Hymns on the Right, Semblance, and Last Dharma-Ages 2-59
    • Hymns on the Offense of Doubting the Primal Vow 60-82
    • Hymns in Praise of Prince Shotoku 83-93
    • Gutoku’s Hymns of Lament and Reflection 94-109
    • Additional Hymns of Lament on the Term Hotoke 110-114
    • Concluding Hymns 115-116
    • On Jinen honi
  • Hymns in Praise of Prince Shotoku
    • Part One: Hymns 1-25
    • Part Two: Hymns 26-50
    • Part Three: Hymns 51-75
• Commentaries
  • Notes on ‘Essentials of Faith Alone’
  • Notes on Once-Calling and Many-Calling
  • Notes on the Inscriptions of Sacred Scrolls
• Letters
  • Lamp for the Latter Ages
  • A Collection of Letters
  • A Collection of Letters (Zensho Text)
  • Letters of the Tradition
  • Uncollected Letters
• Shorter Works
  • Gutoku’s Notes
  • Hymn of the Two Gateways of Entrance and Emergence
  • Passages on the Two Aspects of the Tathagata’s Directing of Virtue
  • A Collection of Passages on the Types of Birth in the Three Pure Land Sutras
  • The Virtue of the Name of Amida Tathagata
• Related Works
  • A Record in Lament of Divergences
  • Essentials of Faith Alone
  • Clarification of Once-Calling and Many-Calling