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 car...

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