Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism : : Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition / / Paul B. Watt; ed. by Richard K. Payne.
The True Pure Land sect of Japanese Buddhism, or Shin Buddhism, grew out of the teachings of Shinran (1173-1262), a Tendai-trained monk who came to doubt the efficacy of that tradition in what he viewed as a degenerate age. Shinran held that even those unable to fulfill the requirements of the tradi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pure Land Buddhist Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface
- A Word about the Translations
- Part I. Introduction: Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition
- Part II. Translations
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index