Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan

Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan

Author: Galen Amstutz

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004401501

Category: Religion

Page: 356

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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. The pieces reproduced in this set have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity and evolution of Pure Land Buddhism. These selections of previously published articles will serve as an essential starting-point for anyone interested in this perhaps underestimated area of Buddhist studies.
Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan
Language: en
Pages: 356

Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan

Authors: Galen Amstutz
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-08 - Publisher: BRILL

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. The pieces reproduced in this set have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity and evolution
Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan
Language: en
Pages: 316

Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan

Authors: Galen Amstutz
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-08 - Publisher: BRILL

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. The pieces reproduced in this set have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity and evolution
Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan
Language: en
Pages: 466

Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan

Authors: Galen Amstutz
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-08 - Publisher: BRILL

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. The pieces reproduced in this set have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity and evolution
Interpreting Amida
Language: en
Pages: 268

Interpreting Amida

Authors: Galen Amstutz
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-04-25 - Publisher: SUNY Press

Examines the history of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism and how orientalist assumptions have caused the West to ignore this important tradition.
Pure Land, Real World
Language: en
Pages: 257

Pure Land, Real World

Authors: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-28 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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 in the Japanese imagination. In the late nineteenth century, some Buddhist thinkers sought to reinterpret the Pure Land in ways that would allow it speak