Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts : : An Anthology / / ed. by Georgios T. Halkias, Richard K. Payne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Ama, Michihiro,; Andreeva, Anna,; Apple, James B.,; Chilson, Clark,; Dessì, Ugo,; Dreitlein, Thomas Eijō,; Fasan, Jacques,; Getz, Daniel,; Halkias, Georgios T.,; Heller, Natasha,; Jones, Charles B.,; Kósa, Gábor,; Lindsay, Ethan,; McBride, Richard D.,; Mitchell, Scott A.,; Overbey, Ryan Richard,; Payne, Richard K.,; Porcu, Elisabetta,; Proffitt, Aaron P.,; Rambelli, Fabio,; Rhodes, Robert F.,; Silk, Jonathan A.,; Stone, Jacqueline I.,; Sørensen, Henrik H.,; Wallace, Vesna A.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ama, Michihiro.; Andreeva, Anna.; Apple, James.; Chilson, Clark.; Dessi, Ugo.; Dreitlein, Thomas Eijō.; Fasan, Jacques.; Getz, Daniel A.; Heller, Natasha.; Jones, Charles B.; Kósa, Gábor.; Lindsay, Ethan.; McBride, Richard D.; Overbey, Ryan.; Porcu, Elisabetta.; Proffitt, Aaron P.; Rambelli, Fabio.; Rhodes, Robert F.; Silk, Jonathan A.; Stone, Jacqueline I.; Sørensen, Henrik.; Wallace, Vesna.
• HerausgeberIn: Halkias, Georgios T.,; Payne, Richard K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Pure Land Buddhist Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (808 p.) :; 1 b&w illustration

This diverse anthology of original Buddhist texts in translation provides a historical and conceptual framework that will transform contemporary scholarship on Pure Land Buddhism and instigate its recognition as an essential field of Buddhist studies. Traditional and contemporary primary sources carefully selected from Buddhist cultures across historical, geopolitical, and literary boundaries are organized by genre rather than chronologically, geographically, or by religious lineage-a novel juxtaposition that reveals their wider importance in fresh contexts. Together these fundamental texts from different Asian traditions, expertly translated by eminent and up-and-coming scholars, illustrate that the Buddhism of pure lands is not just an East Asian cult or a marginal type of Buddhism, but a pan-Asian and deeply entrenched religious phenomenon. The volume is organized into six parts: Ritual Practices, Contemplative Visualizations, Doctrinal Expositions, Life Writing and Poetry, Ethical and Aesthetic Explications, and Worlds beyond Sukhāvatī. Each part is introduced and summarized, and each translated piece is prefaced by its translator to supply historical and sectarian context as well as insight into the significance of the work. Common and less-common issues of practice, doctrine, and intra-religious transfer are explored, and deeper understandings of the meaning of "pure lands" are gained through the study of the celestial, cosmological, internal, and earthly pure lands associated with various buddhas, bodhisattvas, and devotional figures. The introduction by the volume editors ties the diverse themes of the book together and provides a historical background to Pure Land Buddhist studies. Scholars of Buddhism and Asian religion, including graduate and post-graduate students, as well as Buddhist practitioners, will appreciate the range of translated materials and accompanied discussions made accessible in one essential collection, the first of its kind to center on the formerly-neglected topic of Buddhist pure lands.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Editors' Introduction -- I. Ritual Practices -- Overview -- Chapter 1. The Consecration Scripture Spoken by the Buddha on Being Reborn in Whichever of the Pure Lands of the Ten Directions You Wish -- Chapter 2. Esoteric Pure Land in Kakuban's Thought -- Chapter 3. Akṣobhya Homa Fire Offerings for the Buddha of the Eastern Pure Land -- Chapter 4. Nenbutsu Practice in Genshin's Ōjōyōshū -- Chapter 5. Visions of the Pure Land from the Mind Treasury of Namchö Migyur Dorje -- II. Contemplative Visualizations -- Overview -- Chapter 1. Liberating Desire -- Chapter 2. Maitreya's Tuṣita Heaven as a Pure Land in Gelukpa Forms of Tibetan Buddhism -- Chapter 3. Amoghavajra's Amitāyus Ritual Manual -- Chapter 4. Dōhan's Compendium on the Secret Contemplation of Buddha, Fascicle One -- III. Doctrinal Expositions -- Overview -- Chapter 1. Answers to Forty-Eight Questions about Pure Land (Selections) -- Chapter 2. The Role of Buddhism in Emperor Worship -- Chapter 3. "The Future of American Buddhism" -- Chapter 4. Naikan's Path -- Chapter 5. Wŏnhyo's Commentary on the Amitābha Sūtra -- IV. Life-Writing and Poetry -- Overview -- Chapter 1. Biographies from The Accounts of Those from Mount Kōya Who Have Attained Birth in a Pure Land -- Chapter 2 Contemporary Pure Land Miracle Tales -- Chapter 3. In Praise of His Mighty Name -- Chapter 4. Pure Land Devotional Poetry by a Chan Monk -- V. Ethical and Aesthetic Explications -- Overview -- Chapter 1. Religion and Ethics in the Thought of Kiyozawa Manshi -- Chapter 2. The Pure Land and This World in Hishiki Masaharu's Shin Buddhist Ethics -- Chapter 3. Toward a Pure Land Buddhist Aesthetics -- Chapter 4. A Confucian Pure Land? -- Chapter 5. Tanaka Chigaku on "The Age of Unification" -- VI. Worlds beyond Sukhāvatī -- Overview -- Chapter 1. The Divine Scripture on the Rebirth in the Pure Land of the Highest Cavern Mystery of Numinous Treasure -- Chapter 2. A Manichaean Pure Land -- Chapter 3. Śambhala as a Pure Land -- Contributors -- Index