Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts: An Anthology

Halkias, Georgios T. (編); Payne, Richard K. (編)

著者

Halkias, Georgios T. (編) ; Payne, Richard K. (編)

出版年月日

2019.03

ページ

808

出版者

University of Hawai‘i Press

出版サイト

https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/

出版地

Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]

シリーズ

Pure Land Buddhist Studies

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Georgios T. Halkias is an assistant professor and undergraduate program director at the Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong.
Richard K. Payne is Yehan Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley.

抄録

This diverse anthology of original Buddhist texts in translation provides a historical and conceptual framework that will transform contemporary scholarship on Pure Land Buddhism and instigate its recognition as an essential field of Buddhist studies. Traditional and contemporary primary sources carefully selected from Buddhist cultures across historical, geopolitical, and literary boundaries are organized by genre rather than chronologically, geographically, or by religious lineage—a novel juxtaposition that reveals their wider importance in fresh contexts. Together these fundamental texts from different Asian traditions, expertly translated by eminent and up-and-coming scholars, illustrate that the Buddhism of pure lands is not just an East Asian cult or a marginal type of Buddhism, but a pan-Asian and deeply entrenched religious phenomenon.

The volume is organized into six parts: Ritual Practices, Contemplative Visualizations, Doctrinal Expositions, Life Writing and Poetry, Ethical and Aesthetic Explications, and Worlds beyond Sukhāvatī. Each part is introduced and summarized, and each translated piece is prefaced by its translator to supply historical and sectarian context as well as insight into the significance of the work. Common and less-common issues of practice, doctrine, and intra-religious transfer are explored, and deeper understandings of the meaning of “pure lands” are gained through the study of the celestial, cosmological, internal, and earthly pure lands associated with various buddhas, bodhisattvas, and devotional figures. The introduction by the volume editors ties the diverse themes of the book together and provides a historical background to Pure Land Buddhist studies. Scholars of Buddhism and Asian religion, including graduate and post-graduate students, as well as Buddhist practitioners, will appreciate the range of translated materials and accompanied discussions made accessible in one essential collection, the first of its kind to center on the formerly-neglected topic of Buddhist pure lands.

Contents
Series Editor’s Preface ix
Scott A. Mitchell Editors’ Introduction 1
Georgios T. Halkias and Richard K. Payne
I. Ritual Practices
Overview 29
1 The Consecration Scripture Spoken by the Buddha on Being Reborn in Whichever of the Pure Lands of the Ten Directions You Wish 33 Ryan Richard Overbey
2 Esoteric Pure Land in Kakuban’s Thought 56 Anna Andreeva
3 Akṣobhya Homa: Fire Offerings for the Buddha of the Eastern Pure Land 79 Richard K. Payne
4 Nenbutsu Practice in Genshin’s Ōjōyōshū 115 Robert F. Rhodes
5 Visions of the Pure Land from the Mind Treasury of Namchö Migyur Dorje 139 Georgios T. Halkias

II. Contemplative Visualizations
Overview 157
1 Liberating Desire: An Esoteric Pure Land Text by Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna 159 Georgios T. Halkias
2 Maitreya’s Tuṣita Heaven as a Pure Land in Gelukpa Forms of Tibetan Buddhism 188 James B. Apple
3 Amoghavajra’s Amitāyus Ritual Manual 223 Thomas Eijō Dreitlein
4 Dōhan’s Compendium on the Secret Contemplation of Buddha, Fascicle One 269 Aaron P. Proffitt

III. Doctrinal Expositions
Overview 319
1 Answers to Forty-Eight Questions about Pure Land (Selections) 322 Charles B. Jones
2 The Role of Buddhism in Emperor Worship 349 Fabio Rambelli
3 “The Future of American Buddhism” 379 Michihiro Ama
4 Naikan’s Path 396 Clark Chilson
5 Wŏnhyo’s Commentary on the Amitābha Sūtra 420 Richard D. McBride II

IV. Life-Writing and Poetry
Overview 455
1 Biographies from The Accounts of Those from Mount Kōya Who Have Attained Birth in a Pure Land 457 Ethan Lindsay
2 Contemporary Pure Land Miracle Tales 477 Natasha Heller
3 In Praise of His Mighty Name: A Tibetan Poem on Amitābha from Dunhuang 496 Jonathan A. Silk
4 Pure Land Devotional Poetry by a Chan Monk 540 Natasha Heller

V. Ethical and Aesthetic Explications
Overview 551
1 Religion and Ethics in the Thought of Kiyozawa Manshi 554 Jacques Fasan
2 The Pure Land and This World in Hishiki Masaharu’s Shin Buddhist Ethics 571 Ugo Dessì
3 Toward a Pure Land Buddhist Aesthetics: Yanagi Sōetsu on the Vow of Non-Discrimination between Beauty and Ugliness 587 Elisabetta Porcu
4 A Confucian Pure Land? Longshu’s Treatise on Pure Land by Wang Rixiu 602 Daniel Getz
5 Tanaka Chigaku on “The Age of Unification” 631 Jacqueline I. Stone

VI. Worlds beyond Sukhāvatī
Overview 663
1 The Divine Scripture on the Rebirth in the Pure Land of the Highest Cavern Mystery of Numinous Treasure 665 Henrik H. Sørensen
2 A Manichaean Pure Land: The Buddhicized Description of the Realm of Light in the Chinese Manichaean Hymnscroll 707 Gábor Kósa
3 Śambhala as a Pure Land 744 Vesna A. Wallace
Contributors 763
Index 769

ISBN

9780824873097 (hc); 9780824897123 (pbk)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824877149

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