The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation), credited to Hyakuzō Kurata, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation) by Hyakuzō Kurata. (Translated by Glenn William Shaw.) Read in English by Expatriate At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called "The Priest & His Disciples" ("Shukke to sono deshi"). This stage play is based on the life and teachings of the 13th century Buddhist priest Shinran (1173-1263) and quickly became immensely popular. Shinran, the historical founder of the True Pure Land School of Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū), encounters the poor family of Hino Saemon and his wife Okane, and converses with them about how to live in circumstances of change and turmoil and hardship. Most of the ideas represented as Shinran's are really Kurata's own philosophies, an amalgam of Eastern and Western ideas adapted by his own iconoclastic spirit to the tumultuous times of early twentieth-century Japan. - Summary by Expatriate

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)
• Author credits: Hyakuzō Kurata
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 5:44:12

Catalogue topics

• buddhism
• shinran
• jōdo shinshū

Track guide

1. 00 - Translator's Introduction — 7:58
2. 01 - Induction — 13:06
3. 02 - Act I, Scene 1 — 28:09
4. 03 - Act I, Scene 2a — 19:01
5. 04 - Act I, Scene 2b — 20:26
6. 05 - Act IIa — 23:30
7. 06 - Act IIb — 23:25
8. 07 - Act III, Scene 1 — 28:18
9. 08 - Act III, Scene 2 — 25:05
10. 09 - Act IV, Scene 1 — 26:37
11. 10 - Act IV, Scene 2 — 27:56
12. 11 - Act V, Scene 1 — 24:25
13. 12 - Act V, Scene 2 — 29:41
14. 13 - Act VI, Scene 1 — 8:49
15. 14 - Act VI, Scene 2 — 20:51
16. 15 - Act VI, Scene 3 — 5:03
17. 16 - Act VI, Scene 4 — 11:52

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