S. Yamabe 
Buddhist Psalms [PDF ebook] 
Translated From the Japanese of Shinran Shonin

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The world knows little as yet of the soul of Mahayana Buddhism, though much of its Outer Observance, and for this reason a crucial injustice has been done in regarding it merely as a degraded form of the earlier Buddhism – a rank off-shoot of the teachings of the Gautama Buddha, a system of idolatry and priestly power from which the austere purity of the earlier faith has passed away. The truth is that Buddhism, like Christianity, in every country where it has sowed its seed and reaped its harvest, developed along the lines indicated by the mind of that people. The Buddhism of Japan differs from that of Tibet as profoundly as the Christianity of Abyssinia from that of Scotland – yet both have conserved the essential principle.