Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan: Volume 1
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Brill Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan -- Part 1 Useful Overarching Perspectives -- Buddhism as a Religion of Hope: Observations on the "Logic" of a Doctrine and Its Foundational Myth -- Pure Land Buddhism as an Alternative Mārga -- Part 2...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9789004401372 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Brill Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan -- Part 1 Useful Overarching Perspectives -- Buddhism as a Religion of Hope: Observations on the "Logic" of a Doctrine and Its Foundational Myth -- Pure Land Buddhism as an Alternative Mārga -- Part 2 Early Presence in Japan -- The Development of Mappō Thought in Japan (I) -- The Development of Mappō Thought in Japan (II) -- The Growth of Pure Land Buddhism in the Heian Period -- Ōjōyōshū, Nihon Ōjō Gokuraku-ki, and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan -- With the Help of "Good Friends": Deathbed Ritual Practices in Early Medieval Japan -- Part 3 Turn to the Nembutsu as the Sole Solution -- Hōnen on Attaining Pure Land Rebirth: the Selected Nenbutsu of the Original Vow -- Hōnen and Popular Pure Land Piety: Assimilation and Transformation -- Socio-Economic Impacts of Hōnen's Pure Land Doctrines: an Inquiry into the Interplay between Buddhist Teachings and Institutions -- Part 4 Shinran's More Radical Turn to the Enlightenment Gift as an Involuntary Emergent Property -- Faith: Its Arising -- "Rely on the Meaning, Not on the Words": Shinran's Methodology and Strategy for Reading Scriptures and Writing the Kyōgyōshinshō. |
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| ISBN: | 9004401504 |