Chinese Pure Land Buddhism

Charles B Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice is the first book in any western language to provide a comprehensive overview of Chi... Lees meer

Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts

• Hardcover | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• This diverse anthology of original Buddhist texts in translation provides a historical and conceptual framework that will transform contemporary schol... Lees meer

Jodo Shinshu

James C Dobbins

• Paperback | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• This work combines the biography of the founder of Shin Buddhism with a detailed study of the complex development of the religion, from its simple beg... Lees meer

The Revolution of Buddhist Modernism

Jeff Schroeder

• Paperback | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• Reacting to nineteenth-century forces of colonialism and globalization, Buddhist reformers across Asia strove to modernize Buddhist teachings, practic... Lees meer

Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism

Paul B Watt

• Hardcover | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• The True Pure Land sect of Japanese Buddhism, or Shin Buddhism, grew out of the teachings of Shinran (1173-1262), a Tendai-trained monk who came to do... Lees meer

Pure Land, Real World

Melissa Anne-Marie Curley

• Hardcover | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• For close to a thousand years Amida's Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of shared happiness circulating ... Lees meer

Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism

Aaron P Proffitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• What, if anything, is Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism? In 1224, the medieval Japanese scholar-monk Dōhan (1179-1252) composed The Compendium on Esoteric M... Lees meer

Immigrants to the Pure Land

Michihiro Ama

• Hardcover | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• Religious acculturation is typically seen as a one-way process: The dominant religious culture imposes certain behavioral patterns, ethical standards,... Lees meer

Tracing the Itinerant Path

Caitilin J Griffiths

• Hardcover | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• Women have long been active supporters and promoters of Buddhist rituals and functions, but their importance in the operations of Buddhist schools has... Lees meer

The Revolution of Buddhist Modernism

Jeff Schroeder

• Hardcover | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• Reacting to nineteenth-century forces of colonialism and globalization, Buddhist reformers across Asia strove to modernize Buddhist teachings, practic... Lees meer

Genshin's Ōjōyōshū And the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan

Robert F Rhodes

• Paperback | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• The Ōjōyōshū, written by the monk Genshin (942-1017), is one of the most important texts in the history of Japanese religions. It is the first compreh... Lees meer

Chinese Pure Land Buddhism

Charles B Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice is the first book in any western language to provide a comprehensive overview of Chi... Lees meer