Approaching the Land of Bliss : : Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitābha / / ed. by Richard K. Payne, Kenneth K. Tanaka.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Getz, Daniel,; Glassman, Hank,; Jaffe, Richard M.,; Jones, Charles B.,; Kapstein, Matthew T.,; Lewis, Todd T.,; Payne, Richard K.,; Rambelli, Fabio,; Sanford, James H.,; Stone, Jacqueline I.,
• HerausgeberIn: Payne, Richard K.,; Tanaka, Kenneth K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

The discourse of Buddhist studies has traditionally been structured around texts and nations (the transmission of Buddhism from India to China to Japan). And yet, it is doubtful that these categories reflect in any significant way the organizing themes familiar to most Buddhists. It could be argued...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Pure Land Buddhism in Tibet? From Sukhävatï to the Field of Great Bliss
• 2. Shengchang’s Pure Conduct Society and the Chinese Pure Land Patriarchate
• 3. By the Power of One’s Last Nenbutsu Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
• 4. Amida’s Secret Life Kakuban’s Amida hishaku
• 5. “Show Me the Place Where My Mother Is!” Chüjöhime, Preaching, and Relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
• 6. “Just Behave as You Like; Prohibitions and Impurities Are Not a Problem” Radical Amida Cults and Popular Religiosity in Premodern Japan
• 7. Ungo Kiyö’s Öjöyöka and Rinzai Zen Orthodoxy
• 8. From Generalized Goal to Tantric Subordination Sukhävatï in the Indic Buddhist Traditions of Nepal
• 9. Buddha One A One-Day Buddha-Recitation Retreat in Contemporary Taiwan
• Character Glossary
• Contributors
• Index