Cultivating Spirituality

A Modern Shin Buddhist Anthology

Mark L. Blum, Robert F. Rhodes (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

321 Seiten

2011
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-3981-5 (ISBN)

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Four Shin Buddhist thinkers reflect on their tradition’s encounter with modernity.

Cultivating Spirituality is a seminal anthology of Shin Buddhist thought, one that reflects this tradition's encounter with modernity. Shin (or Jodō Shinshū) is a popular form of Pure Land Buddhism, the most widely practiced form of Buddhism in Japan, but is only now becoming well known in the West. The lives of the four thinkers included in the book spanned the years 1863–1982, from the Meiji opening to the West to Japan's establishment as an industrialized democracy and world economic power. Kiyozawa Manshi, Soga Ryōjin, Kaneko Daiei, and Yasuda Rijin, all associated with Kyoto's Ōtani University, dealt with the spiritual concerns of a society undergoing great change. Their philosophical orientation known as "Seishinshugi" ("cultivating spirituality") provides a set of principles that prioritized personal, subjective experience as the basis for religious understanding.

In addition to providing access to work generally unavailable in English, this volume also includes both a contextualizing introduction and introductions to each figure included.

Mark L. Blum is Professor of Japanese at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism: A Study and Translation of Gyōnen's Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō and the coeditor (with Shin'ya Yasutomi) of Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism. Robert F. Rhodes is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Ōtani University.

Preface
Yasutomi Shin’ya

Abbreviations

1. Shin Buddhism in the Meiji Period
Mark L. Blum

Kiyozawa Manshi

2. Kiyozawa Manshi: Life and Thought
Mark L. Blum

3. Why Do Buddhists Lack Self-Respect?
Kiyozawa Manshi
translated by Mark L. Blum

4. Negotiating Religious Morality and Common Morality
Kiyozawa Manshi
translated by Mark L. Blum

5. The Nature of My Faith
Kiyozawa Manshi
translated by Mark L. Blum

Soga Ryōjin

6. Soga Ryōjin: Life and Thought
Robert F. Rhodes

7. A Savior on Earth: The Meaning of Dharmākara Bodhisattva’s Advent
Soga Ryōjin
translated by Jan Van Bragt

8. Shinran’s View of Buddhist History
Soga Ryōjin
translated by Jan Van Bragt

9. Lectures on the Tannishō
Soga Ryōjin
translated by Jan Van Bragt

Kaneko Daiei

10. Kaneko Daiei: Life and Times
Robert Rhodes

11. Prolegomena to Shin Buddhist Studies
Kaneko Daiei
translated by Robert Rhodes

Yasuda Rijin

12. Yasuda Rijin: Life and Thought
Paul Watt

13. The Practical Understanding of Buddhism
Yasuada Rijin
translated by Paul Watt

14. The Mirror of Nothingness
Yasuda Rijin
translated by Paul Watt

15. A Name but Not a Name Alone
Yasuda Rijin
translated by Paul Watt

Combined Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.12.2011
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 4
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	553 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4384-3981-4 / 1438439814
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-3981-5 / 9781438439815
Zustand	Neuware