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Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan. Volume 2 / edited by Galen Amstutz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004401518
  • 9004401512
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan: Volume 2.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/9260952 23
  • 294.32 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ8512.9.J3 C752 2020
  • BQ676
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Part 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 -- Shin Buddhist Attitudes towards the Kami: From Shinran to Rennyo -- Popular Pure Land Teachings of the Zenkōji Nyorai and Shinran -- Stand by Your Founder Honganji's Struggle with Funeral Orthodoxy -- Steadied Ambiguity: the Afterlife in "Popular" Shin Buddhism -- Ambivalence Regarding Women and Female Gender in Premodern Shin Buddhism
Part 6 The Alternative Field: Pure Land Striven for in This World -- Ippen and Pure Land Buddhist Wayfarers in Medieval Japan -- The Shingon Subordinating Fire Offering for Amitābha, "Amida Kei Ai Goma" -- Breath of Life: the Esoteric Nembutsu -- Jōkei and the Rhetoric of "Other-Power" and "Easy Practice" in Medieval Japanese Buddhism -- Part 7 Pure Land Fellowships in War and Peace -- The Life of Rennyo: A Struggle for the Transmission of Dharma -- The Dilemma of Religious Power: Honganji and Hosokawa Masamoto -- Shin Buddhism and Burakumin in the Edo Period
Precepts in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism: The Jōdoshū -- Exemplary Lives: Form and Function in Pure Land Sacred Biography -- Preaching as Performance: Notes on a Secretive Shin Buddhist Sermon -- The Nianfo in Ōbaku Zen: a Look at the Teachings of the Three Founding Masters -- Extreme Asceticism, Medicine and Pure Land Faith in the Life of Shuichi Munō (1683-1719)
Summary: Pure 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2497522

Pure 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.

Intro -- Contents -- Part 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 -- Shin Buddhist Attitudes towards the Kami: From Shinran to Rennyo -- Popular Pure Land Teachings of the Zenkōji Nyorai and Shinran -- Stand by Your Founder Honganji's Struggle with Funeral Orthodoxy -- Steadied Ambiguity: the Afterlife in "Popular" Shin Buddhism -- Ambivalence Regarding Women and Female Gender in Premodern Shin Buddhism

Part 6 The Alternative Field: Pure Land Striven for in This World -- Ippen and Pure Land Buddhist Wayfarers in Medieval Japan -- The Shingon Subordinating Fire Offering for Amitābha, "Amida Kei Ai Goma" -- Breath of Life: the Esoteric Nembutsu -- Jōkei and the Rhetoric of "Other-Power" and "Easy Practice" in Medieval Japanese Buddhism -- Part 7 Pure Land Fellowships in War and Peace -- The Life of Rennyo: A Struggle for the Transmission of Dharma -- The Dilemma of Religious Power: Honganji and Hosokawa Masamoto -- Shin Buddhism and Burakumin in the Edo Period

Precepts in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism: The Jōdoshū -- Exemplary Lives: Form and Function in Pure Land Sacred Biography -- Preaching as Performance: Notes on a Secretive Shin Buddhist Sermon -- The Nianfo in Ōbaku Zen: a Look at the Teachings of the Three Founding Masters -- Extreme Asceticism, Medicine and Pure Land Faith in the Life of Shuichi Munō (1683-1719)

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