Missionary Perspectives on Japanese Pure Land Buddhism in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 232 Afterlife Discourse in Late Sixteenth-Century Japanese Pure Land Buddhism 237 Teaching Heaven: The Introduction of Christian Afterlife Discourse in Japan 243 The Pure Land Is Void: Emptiness and Nothingness in Habian’s Critique 249 Habian’s Geophysical Argument: The Pure Land’s Hyperbolic Descriptions as Expressing Void 256 Habian’s Polemical Paradigm: Revelation and Reason in the Context of Refutation, Pre- and Post-Apostasy 258 Conclusion 268
