Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006. x + 156 pp. Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology, vol. 17. Paper, €25.00. isbn 978-3-8253-5264-6.
關鍵詞
Buddhist Path
摘要
Dennis Hirota’s short but dense book brings the reader into contact with the heart of Shinran’s teaching, revealing him to be not merely the propagator of a devotion or a path to salvation, but a radical thinker who, like the Zen masters, overturns the conventions of everyday understanding and discloses a different vision of truth, one that cannot be summarized conceptually but has to be lived. Hirota vindicates the intellectual comprehensiveness and radicality of Pure Land, which steps aside from everyday thinking not into blind devotion but to a higher plane of insight. His work is of crucial significance in reconciling the rich imagery of an ancient religious tradition with the constraints of contemporary rationality, and in bringing out the living spirit of Pure Land Buddhism, so easily lost sight...
