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Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan: Volume 2
Author Amstutz, Galen (編)
Date2020.06
Pages456
PublisherBrill
Publisher Url https://brill.com/
LocationLeiden, the Netherlands [萊登, 荷蘭]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
AbstractPure 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.
Table of contentsPart 5 Formation of a Major Institution: Honganji and Its Negotiations with Popular Consciousness
From Inspiration to Institution
The Rise of Sectarian Identity in Jōdo Shinshū 349–362
Shin Buddhist Attitudes towards the Kami From Shinran to Rennyo 0363–387
Popular Pure Land Teachings of the Zenkōji Nyorai and Shinran 388–397

Stand by Your Founder
Honganji’s Struggle with Funeral Orthodoxy 398–429
Steadied Ambiguity: the Afterlife in “Popular” Shin Buddhism 430–448
Ambivalence Regarding Women and Female Gender in Premodern Shin Buddhism 449–480

Part 6 The Alternative Field: Pure Land Striven for in This World
Ippen and Pure Land Buddhist Wayfarers in Medieval Japan 483–508
The Shingon Subordinating Fire Offering for Amitābha, “Amida Kei Ai Goma” 509–529
Breath of Life: the Esoteric Nembutsu 530–560
Jōkei and the Rhetoric of “Other-Power” and “Easy Practice” in Medieval Japanese Buddhism 561–599

Part 7 Pure Land Fellowships in War and Peace
The Life of Rennyo
A Struggle for the Transmission of Dharma 603–627
The Dilemma of Religious Power
Honganji and Hosokawa Masamoto 628–644
Shin Buddhism and Burakumin in the Edo Period 645–694
Precepts in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism
The Jōdoshū 695–711

Exemplary Lives
Form and Function in Pure Land Sacred Biography 712–745
Preaching as Performance
Notes on a Secretive Shin Buddhist Sermon 746–758
The Nianfo in Ōbaku Zen: a Look at the Teachings of the Three Founding Masters 759–777
Extreme Asceticism, Medicine and Pure Land Faith in the Life of Shuichi Munō (1683–1719) 778–802
ISBN9789004401389 (hc); 9789004401518 (eb)
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