Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan: Volume 3, Galen Amstutz

Автор: Galen Amstutz
Название: Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan: Volume 2
ISBN: 9004401385 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004401389
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: Pure Land was one of the main fields of mythopoesis and discourse among the Asian Buddhist traditions, and in Japan of central cultural importance from the Heian period right up to the present. However, its range, inconsistency, variability, and complexity have tended to be misevaluated. The pieces reproduced in this set, organized both chronologically and thematically, have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity of what evolved under this heading of Buddhism. Special attention is given to the traps into which Western observers may fall, the role of the large True Pure Land (Jōdoshinshū) school, and the richness of Tokugawa and twentieth-century developments. These selections of previously published articles will serve as an essential starting-point for anyone interested in this perhaps underestimated area of Buddhist studies.

Автор: Galen Amstutz
Название: Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan: Volume 1
ISBN: 9004401377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004401372
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: Pure Land was one of the main fields of mythopoesis and discourse among the Asian Buddhist traditions, and in Japan of central cultural importance from the Heian period right up to the present. However, its range, inconsistency, variability, and complexity have tended to be misevaluated. The pieces reproduced in this set, organized both chronologically and thematically, have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity of what evolved under this heading of Buddhism. Special attention is given to the traps into which Western observers may fall, the role of the large True Pure Land (Jōdoshinshū) school, and the richness of Tokugawa and twentieth-century developments. These selections of previously published articles will serve as an essential starting-point for anyone interested in this perhaps underestimated area of Buddhist studies.

Автор: Charles B. Jones
Название: Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice
ISBN: 0824879716 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824879716
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice is the first book in any western language to provide a comprehensive overview of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism. Even though Pure Land Buddhism was born in China and currently constitutes the dominant form of Buddhist practice there, it has previously received very little attention from western scholars. In this book, Charles B. Jones examines the reasons for the lack of scholarly attention and why the few past treatments of the topic missed many of its distinctive features. He argues that the Chinese Pure Land tradition, with its characteristic promise of rebirth in the Pure Land to even non-elite or undeserving practitioners, should not be viewed from the perspective of the Japanese Pure Land tradition, which differs greatly. More accurately contextualizing Chinese Pure Land Buddhism within the landscape of Chinese Buddhism and the broader global Buddhist tradition, this work celebrates Chinese Pure Land, not as a school or sect, but as a unique and inherently valuable “tradition of practice.” This volume is organized thematically, clearly presenting topics such as the nature of the Pure Land, the relationship between “self-power” and “other-power,” the practice of nianfo (buddha-recollection), and the formation of the line of “patriarchs” that keep the tradition grounded. It guides us in understanding the vigorous debates that Chinese Pure Land Buddhism evoked and delves into the rich apologetic literature that it produced in its own defense. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexamined primary source materials, as well as modern texts by contemporary Chinese Pure Land masters, the author provides lucid translations of resources previously unavailable in English. He also shares his lifetime of experience in this field, enlivening the narrative with personal anecdotes of his visits to sites of Pure Land practice in China and Taiwan.The straightforward and nontechnical prose makes this book a standby resource for anyone interested in pursuing research in this lively, sophisticated, and still-evolving religious tradition. Scholars—including undergraduates—specializing in East Asian Buddhism, as well as those interested in Buddhism or Chinese religion and history in general will find this book invaluable.

Автор: Robert F. Rhodes
Название: Genshin`s Ojoyoshu and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan
ISBN: 0824879287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824879280
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Описание: The Ojoyoshu, written by the monk Genshin (942-1017), is one of the most important texts in the history of Japanese religions. In this first book in English on the Ojoyoshu in more than forty years, Robert Rhodes draws on the latest scholarship to shed new light on the text, its author, and the tumultuous age in which it was written.

Автор: Robert F. Rhodes
Название: Genshin`s Ojoyoshu and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan
ISBN: 0824872487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824872489
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Описание: The Ojoyoshu, written by the monk Genshin (942-1017), is one of the most important texts in the history of Japanese religions. It is the first comprehensive guide to the doctrine and practice of Pure Land Buddhism. Robert Rhodes draws on the latest scholarship to shed new light on the text, its author, and the tumultuous age in which it was written.

Автор: Janet R. Goodwin, Joan R. Piggott
Название: Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan
ISBN: 0824872932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824872939
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Описание: From the tenth to sixteenth centuries, landed estates served as sites of de facto government, trade network nodes, developing agricultural technology, and centres of religious practice in Japan. This volume examines the system from three perspectives: the land itself; the power derived from and exerted over the land; and the religious institutions and individuals involved in landholding practices.

Автор: Shields
Название: Critical Buddhism
ISBN: 1138254754 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138254756
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the relative calm world of Japanese Buddhist scholarship was thrown into chaos with the publication of several works by Buddhist scholars Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro, dedicated to the promotion of something they called Critical Buddhism (hihan bukkyo). In their quest to re-establish a "true" - rational, ethical and humanist - form of East Asian Buddhism, the Critical Buddhists undertook a radical deconstruction of historical and contemporary East Asian Buddhism, particularly Zen. While their controversial work has received some attention in English-language scholarship, this is the first book-length treatment of Critical Buddhism as both a philosophical and religious movement, where the lines between scholarship and practice blur. Providing a critical and constructive analysis of Critical Buddhism, particularly the epistemological categories of critica and topica, this book examines contemporary theories of knowledge and ethics in order to situate Critical Buddhism within modern Japanese and Buddhist thought as well as in relation to current trends in contemporary Western thought.

Автор: Yu Longyu, Zhu Xuan
Название: Ji Xianlin: A Critical Biography
ISBN: 9386618591 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789386618597
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Описание: Reconstructs the academic, professional and personal journey of the doyen of Indology, Buddhism and Orientalism in China. It is not easy to weave a tapestry of the life and works of a person as versatile as Ji Xianlin, but the authors have done a remarkable job in mirroring his journey through the Qing, Republican and the People`s Republic.

Автор: Georgios T. Halkias
Название: Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet
ISBN: 0824872827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824872823
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Описание: With an annotated English translation and critical analysis of the Orgyan-gling gold manuscript of the short Sukhavativyuha-sutraPure Land Buddhism as a whole has received comparatively little attention in Western studies on Buddhism despite the importance of “buddha-fields” (pure lands) for the growth and expression of Mahayana Buddhism. In this first religious history of Tibetan Pure Land literature, Georgios Halkias delves into a rich collection of literary, historical, and archaeological sources to highlight important aspects of this neglected pan-Asian Buddhist tradition. He clarifies many of the misconceptions concerning the interpretation of “other-world” soteriology in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and provides translations of original Tibetan sources from the ninth century to the present that represent exoteric and esoteric doctrines that continue to be cherished by Tibetan Buddhists for their joyful descriptions of the Buddhist path. The book is informed by interviews with Tibetan scholars and Buddhist practitioners and by Halkias’ own participant-observation in Tibetan Pure Land rituals and teachings conducted in Europe and the Indian subcontinent.Divided into three sections, Luminous Bliss shows that Tibetan Pure Land literature exemplifies a synthesis of Mahayana sutra-based conceptions with a Vajrayana world-view that fits progressive and sudden approaches to the realization of Pure Land teachings. Part I covers the origins and development of Pure Land in India and the historical circumstances of its adaptation in Tibet and Central Asia. Part II offers an English translation of the short Sukhavativyuha-sutra (imported from India during the Tibetan Empire) and contains a survey of original Tibetan Pure Land scriptures and meditative techniques from the dGe-lugs-pa, bKa’-brgyud, rNying-ma, and Sa-skya schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Part III introduces some of the most innovative and popular mortuary cycles and practices related to the Tantric cult of Buddha Amitabha and his Pure Land from the Treasure traditions in the bKa’-brgyud and rNying-ma schools.Luminous Bliss locates Pure Land Buddhism at the core of Tibet’s religious heritage and demonstrates how this tradition constitutes an integral part of both Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism.

Автор: Paul B. Watt
Название: Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism: Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition
ISBN: 0824856325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824856328
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Описание: Introduces the thought and selected writings of Yasuda Rijin, a modern Shin Buddhist thinker affiliated with the Otani branch of Shin Buddhism. In the writings and lectures presented here, Yasuda draws on not only classical Shin and Mahayana Buddhist sources, but also the thought of Nishida Kitar?, and modern Western philosophers such as Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Buber.

Автор: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley
Название: Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination
ISBN: 0824857755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824857752
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Описание: During the war years, economist Kawakami Hajime, philosopher Miki Kiyoshi, and historian Ienaga Saburo seized on modernized images of Shinran in exile and a transcendent Western Paradise to resist the demands of a state that was bearing down on its citizens with increasing force. Pure Land, Real World treats the religious thought of these three major figures in English for the first time.

Автор: Levi McLaughlin
Название: Soka Gakkai`s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan
ISBN: 0824875427 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824875428
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Описание: Soka Gakkai is Japan`s largest and most influential new religious organization: It claims more than 8 million Japanese households and close to 2 million members in 192 countries and territories. Levi McLaughlin`s comprehensive account of Soka Gakkai draws on nearly two decades of archival research and non-member fieldwork to account for its development.