Hitsusei Tatakau Butsu Kiyo Shiyueishiya Shinshiyo 561 (Shueisha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] 'There is no life without vexation. You must live...must live. This great desire is Dhyaksevajra. In other words, vexation is the power of life. After repeated suicide attempts and endless innate suffering, he became a monk. After endless attempts to commit suicide, Hidemine Sasai arrived in India as a wanderer. There he encountered the cultural revival movement and devoted himself to it for more than 40 years. Now a leader of Indian Buddhists, this extraordinary monk talks about his checkered life, the Bodhisattva path, and how to live a life that transcends suffering.

「煩悩なくして生命なし。必ず生きる…必生。この大欲こそが、大楽金剛です。すなわち、煩悩は生きる力なのです」。自殺未遂を繰り返し、尽きせぬ生来の苦悩の末に出家。流浪の果てにインドへ辿り着いた佐々井秀嶺。かの地で文化復興運動にめぐり会い、四〇年以上にわたりこの運動に身を捧げてきた。現在ではインド仏教徒の指導者として活躍する破格の僧侶が、波瀾万丈の半生と菩薩道、そして"苦悩を超えていく生き方"を語り下ろす。