The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition

A Reader in Pure Land Teaching

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2013
World Wisdom Books (Verlag)
978-1-936597-27-7 (ISBN)

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Collects key passages on Pure Land teaching from among the scriptures and the leading monks of the school.

This book is an anthology of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching. Extending from the foundational texts and first interpreters in the 4th century, to Rennyo in the15th century, Professor Bloom's selections trace the development of Shin Buddhist teaching from monastic visualization practices to the widely popular path to salvation through faith in, and recitation of, the name of Amida Buddha. The collection features a foreword by Kenneth K. Tanaka and an insightful introduction by renowned scholar and editor, Alfred Bloom, whose selected passages have been arranged topically for easy reference on issues of Pure Land teaching. The key interpreters featured are the Seven Great Teachers from India, China, and Japan (Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu; T'an-luan, Tao-ch'o, Shan-tao; Genshin, Honen), selected as doctrinal authorities by Shinran (1173-1263), the founder of the Japanese Pure Land sect.

Alfred Bloom, former professor at the University of Hawaii and Dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California, is the author of Shinran's Gospel of Pure Grace and editor of The Essential Shinran and Living in Amida's Universal Vow. He lives in Kailua, HI.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2014
Vorwort	Kenneth K. Tanaka
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 228 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-936597-27-6 / 1936597276
ISBN-13	978-1-936597-27-7 / 9781936597277
Zustand	Neuware