Critical readings on pure land Buddhism in Japan. / Volume 3 / / edited by Galen Amstutz.

• TeilnehmendeR: Amstutz, Galen Dean,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English; Japanese
• Series: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (pages 805-1102)

"Pure Land was one of the main fields of mythopoesis and discourse among the Asian Buddhist traditions, and in Japan of central cultural importance from the Heian period right up to the present. However, its range, inconsistency, variability, and complexity have tended to be misevaluated. The pieces reproduced in this set, organized both chronologically and thematically, have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity of what evolved under this heading of Buddhism. Special attention is given to the traps into which Western observers may fall, the role of the large True Pure Land (Jōdoshinshū) school, and the richness of Tokugawa and twentieth-century developments. These selections of previously published articles will serve as an essential starting point for anyone interested in this perhaps underestimated area of Buddhist studies."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part 8 Meiji and Modernity: Political Resettlement and Realignment, Moments of Intellectual Hybridization, Emigration, Collaboration, Postwar Progressivism, Lingering Conservatism -- Shin Buddhism in the Meiji Period / Mark L. Blum -- Against Buddhist Unity: Murakami Senshō and His Sectarian Critics / Ryan Ward -- The Honganji: Guardian of the State (1868-1945) / Minor L. Rogers and Ann T. Rogers -- Shinran's Thought in Present-Day Japan / Gerhard Schepers -- Propagation, Accommodation and Negotiating Social Capital: Jōdo Shinshū Responses to Contemporary Crises / Jørn Borup -- Family Temples and Religious Learning in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Jessica Starling -- Shin Buddhist Studies and Secularization / Mitsuya Dake -- Amida and Pure Land within a Contemporary Worldview: From Shinran's Literal Symbolism to Figurative Symbolism / Kenneth K. Tanaka -- The Medieval and the Modern in Shin Buddhism / James C. Dobbins -- Rethinking Acculturation in the Postmodern World / Michihiro Ama -- Nenbutsu and Meditation: Problems with the Categories of Contemplation, Devotion, Meditation, and Faith / Lisa Grumbach.