Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm' : a translation and study /
Jones, Charles Brewer, 1957-
Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm' : a translation and study / Charles B. Jones. - 1 online resource (167 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- frontispiece -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part One Introductory Study -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Taixu's Life to 1926 -- 3 Previous Western Writings on Taixu's Ideas about the "Pure Land in the Human Realm" -- 4 Utopianism East and West in Taixu's Essay -- 5 Key Themes -- Part Two The Translation -- 6 The Translation: ((Jianshe renjian jingtu lun ...), By Master Taixu ... (1890-1947)) -- Part Three The Pure Land in the Human Realm after Taixu and Conclusions -- 7 The Pure Land in the Human Realm after Taixu 8 Concluding Remarks -- Works. Cited -- Index
"In this book, Charles B. Jones provides the first English language translation of one of the most important texts of modern Chinese Buddhism: monk-reformer Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm'. The essay, written in 1926 as part of Taixu's attempt to revive Chinese Buddhism with a Humanistic Buddhist approach, incorporates Western thought into a reconstruction of the idea of the 'Pure Land in the human realm'. In his commentary on the text, Jones argues that it has been widely misunderstood and mischaracterized. Jones demonstrates that, besides laying out the very modern idea of the Pure Land in the human realm as a slogan for Buddhist engagement with the problems of the modern world, the essay does not, as commonly assumed, discourage practices leading to rebirth in the Pure Land. He also shows that the 'human realm' can mean anywhere in Buddhist cosmology that humans reside, and that the essay's attempts to reconcile Buddhism with modern science is tentative and incomplete. Jones reveals that the essay promotes visions of both paradises and utopias, and that Taixu supports his ideas with many lengthy sutra quotations. The book concludes with an examination of how Taixu's followers developed the idea of the Pure Land in the human realm into a more coherent and modernized ideal."--
Text in English, partially translated from the Chinese.
9781350140578 1350140570 9781350144279 1350144274 9781350140585 1350140589
9781350144279 codeMantra
GBC0K2761 bnb
020048785 Uk
Taixu, 1889-1947. On the establishment of the pure land in the human realm.
Pure Land Buddhism--China.
Bouddhisme de la Terre Pure--Chine.
Buddhist sacred texts.
Buddhism
China
BQ8518.7 / .J65 2021
294.3926 294.30951
Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm' : a translation and study / Charles B. Jones. - 1 online resource (167 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- frontispiece -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part One Introductory Study -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Taixu's Life to 1926 -- 3 Previous Western Writings on Taixu's Ideas about the "Pure Land in the Human Realm" -- 4 Utopianism East and West in Taixu's Essay -- 5 Key Themes -- Part Two The Translation -- 6 The Translation: ((Jianshe renjian jingtu lun ...), By Master Taixu ... (1890-1947)) -- Part Three The Pure Land in the Human Realm after Taixu and Conclusions -- 7 The Pure Land in the Human Realm after Taixu 8 Concluding Remarks -- Works. Cited -- Index
"In this book, Charles B. Jones provides the first English language translation of one of the most important texts of modern Chinese Buddhism: monk-reformer Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm'. The essay, written in 1926 as part of Taixu's attempt to revive Chinese Buddhism with a Humanistic Buddhist approach, incorporates Western thought into a reconstruction of the idea of the 'Pure Land in the human realm'. In his commentary on the text, Jones argues that it has been widely misunderstood and mischaracterized. Jones demonstrates that, besides laying out the very modern idea of the Pure Land in the human realm as a slogan for Buddhist engagement with the problems of the modern world, the essay does not, as commonly assumed, discourage practices leading to rebirth in the Pure Land. He also shows that the 'human realm' can mean anywhere in Buddhist cosmology that humans reside, and that the essay's attempts to reconcile Buddhism with modern science is tentative and incomplete. Jones reveals that the essay promotes visions of both paradises and utopias, and that Taixu supports his ideas with many lengthy sutra quotations. The book concludes with an examination of how Taixu's followers developed the idea of the Pure Land in the human realm into a more coherent and modernized ideal."--
Text in English, partially translated from the Chinese.
9781350140578 1350140570 9781350144279 1350144274 9781350140585 1350140589
9781350144279 codeMantra
GBC0K2761 bnb
020048785 Uk
Taixu, 1889-1947. On the establishment of the pure land in the human realm.
Pure Land Buddhism--China.
Bouddhisme de la Terre Pure--Chine.
Buddhist sacred texts.
Buddhism
China
BQ8518.7 / .J65 2021
294.3926 294.30951