Pure Land, Real World : : Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination / / Melissa Anne-Marie Curley; ed. by Richard K. Payne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie,
• HerausgeberIn: Payne, Richard K.,
• MitwirkendeR: Saburō, Ienaga,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

For close to a thousand years Amida's Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of shared happiness circulating in the Japanese imagination. In the late nineteenth century, some Buddhist thinkers sought to reinterpret the Pure Land in ways that would allow...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Series Editor's Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter One. The Land in Pure Land
• Chapter Two. The Modern Tradition
• Chapter Three. Special Marxist, Special Buddhist
• Chapter Four. Pure Land for the People
• Chapter Five. Man without a Hometown
• Epilogue. "Let Us Read Shinran, Young People!"
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index
• About the Author