Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Tannishō
Even the good person is saved; how much more the evil — Shinran's most-quoted teachings, preserved against corruption
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Tannishō (Posthumous (the principal popular source for Shinran's teaching)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Curved |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Passive |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Tannishō
Transmission across thirty years — Shinran's words remembered and corrected against later corruption.
Space
Tannishō
Teacher-disciple relation as social space of authentic transmission.
Matter
Tannishō
Materially compromised karmic being as the model human.
Observer
Tannishō
Shinran the speaker, Yuien-bō the rememberer, the contemporary disciple as addressee.
Energy
Tannishō
Amida's compassionate energy operating through words and remembered teaching.
Information
Tannishō
Eighteen short sections preserving Shinran's teaching.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Tannishō was suppressed within Jōdo Shinshū itself for centuries — Rennyo noted it could be misread to support antinomianism. Its modern rediscovery made it the most-read Pure Land text in Japan.