Pure Lands in Asian texts and contexts: an anthology

I. Ritual practices. I.1 The consecration scripture spoken by the Buddha on being reborn in whichever of the Pure Lands of the ten directions you wish / Ryan Richard Overbey -- I.2 Esoteric Pure Land in Kakuban's thought / Anna Andreeva -- I.3 Akshobhya Homa: fire offerings for the Buddha of t...

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Contributors: Halkias, Georgios T. 1967- (Editor) ; Payne, Richard K. 1949- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press [2019]
In:Year: 2019
Series/Journal:Pure Land Buddhist studies series
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Pure Land Buddhism / Buddhism / Asia / Literature
RelBib Classification:BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Pure Land Buddhism Literary collections Translations into English
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Summary:I. Ritual practices. I.1 The consecration scripture spoken by the Buddha on being reborn in whichever of the Pure Lands of the ten directions you wish / Ryan Richard Overbey -- I.2 Esoteric Pure Land in Kakuban's thought / Anna Andreeva -- I.3 Akshobhya Homa: fire offerings for the Buddha of the eastern Pure Land / Richard K. Payne -- I.4 Nenbutsu practice in Genshin's Ojoyoshu / Robert F. Rhodes -- I.5. Visions of the Pure Land from the mind treasury of Namcho Migyur Dorje / Georgios T. Halkias -- II. Contemplative visualizations. II.1 Liberating desire: an esoteric Pure Land text by Dipamkarasrijnana / Georgios T. Halkias -- II.2 Maitreya's Tushita Heaven as a Pure Land in Gelukpa forms of Tibetan Buddhism / James Apple -- II.3 Amoghavajra's Amitayus ritual manual / Thomas Eijo Dreitlein -- II.4 Dohan's Compendium on the secret contemplation of Buddha fascicle one / Aaron P. Proffitt -- III. Doctrinal expositions. III.1 Answers to forty-eight questions about Pure Land (selections) / Charles B. Jones -- III.2 Ito Shoshin: the role of Buddhism in emperor worship / Fabio Rambelli -- III.3 "The future of American Buddhism" / Michihiro Ama -- III.4 Naikan's path / Clark Chilson -- III.5 Wonhyo's Commentary on the Amitabha Sutra / Richard D. Mcbride II -- IV. Life-writing and poetry. IV.1 Seeking the Pure Land on Mount Koya in Medieval Japan: biographies from the accounts of those from Mount Koya who have attained birth in a Pure Land / Ethan Lindsay -- IV.2 Contemporary Pure Land miracle tales / Natasha Heller -- IV.3 In praise of his mighty name: a Tibetan poem on Amitabha from Dunhuang / Jonathan A. Silk -- IV.4 Pure Land devotional poetry by a Chan Monk / Natasha Heller -- V. Ethical and aesthetic explications -- V.1 Religion and ethics in the thought of Kiyozawa Manshi / Jacques Fasan -- V.2 The Pure Land and this world in Hishiki Masaharu's Shin Buddhist ethics / Ugo Dessi -- V.3 Toward a Pure Land Buddhist aesthetics: Yanagi Soetsu on the vow of non-discrimination between beauty and ugliness (Muu koshu no gan) / Elisabetta Porcu -- V.4 A Confucian Pure Land?: Longshu's Treatise on Pure Land by Wang Rixiu / Daniel Getz -- V.5 Tanaka Chigaku on "The age of unification" / Jacqueline I. Stone -- VI. Worlds beyond Sukhavati. VI.1 The divine scripture on the rebirth in the Pure Land of the highest cavern mystery of numinous treasure / Henrik Sorensen -- VI.2 A Manichaean Pure Land: the Buddhicized description of the realm of light in the Chinese Manichaean hymnscroll / Gabor Kosa -- VI.3 Sambhala as a Pure Land / Vesna Wallace
ISBN:0824873092