Pure Lands in Asian texts and contexts : an anthology /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Halkias, Georgios, 1967- (Editor), Payne, Richard K. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
Series:Pure Land Buddhist studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ritual practices. The consecration scripture spoken by the Buddha on being reborn in whichever of the Pure Lands of the ten directions you wish / Ryan Richard Overbey
  • Esoteric Pure Land in Kakuban's thought / Anna Andreeva
  • Akṣhobhya Homa : fire offerings for the Buddha of the eastern Pure Land / Richard K. Payne
  • Nenbutsu practice in Genshin's Ōjōyōshū / Robert F. Rhodes
  • Visions of the Pure Land from the mind treasury of Namchö Migyur Dorje / Georgios T. Halkias
  • Contemplative visualizations. Liberating desire : an esoteric Pure Land text by Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna / Georgios T. Halkias
  • Maitreya's Tuṣita Heaven as a Pure Land in Gelukpa forms of Tibetan Buddhism / James B. Apple
  • Amoghavajra's Amitāyus ritual manual / Thomas Eijō Dreitlein
  • Dōhan's Compendium on the secret contemplation of Buddha, fascicle one / Aaron P. Proffitt
  • Doctrinal expositions. Answers to forty-eight questions about Pure Land (selections) / Charles B. Jones
  • The role of Buddhism in emperor worship / Fabio Rambelli
  • "The future of American Buddhism" / Michihiro Ama
  • Naikan's path / Clark Chilson
  • Wŏnhyo's Commentary on the Amitābha Sūtra / Richard D. Mcbride II
  • Life-writing and poetry. Biographies from The accounts of those from Mount Kōya who have attained birth in a Pure Land / Ethan Lindsay
  • Contemporary Pure Land miracle tales / Natasha Heller
  • In praise of his mighty name : a Tibetan poem on Amitābha from Dunhuang / Jonathan A. Silk
  • Pure Land devotional poetry by a Chan Monk / Natasha Heller
  • Ethical and aesthetic explications. Religion and ethics in the thought of Kiyozawa Manshi / Jacques Fasan
  • The Pure Land and this world in Hishiki Masaharu's Shin Buddhist ethics / Ugo Dessi
  • Toward a Pure Land Buddhist aesthetics : Yanagi Sōetsu on the vow of non-discrimination between beauty and ugliness / Elisabetta Porcu
  • A Confucian Pure Land? : Longshu's Treatise on Pure Land by Wang Rixiu / Daniel Getz
  • Tanaka Chigaku on "The age of unification" / Jacqueline I. Stone
  • Worlds beyond Sukhavati. The divine scripture on the rebirth in the Pure Land of the highest cavern mystery of numinous treasure / Henrik H. Soørensen
  • A Manichaean Pure Land : the Buddhicized description of the realm of light in the Chinese Manichaean Hymnscroll / Gábor Kósa
  • Śambhala as a Pure Land / Vesna A. Wallace.