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Chinese Pure Land Buddhism : understanding a tradition of practice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Charles Brewer, 1957- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
Series:Pure Land Buddhist studies.
Subjects:
Pure Land Buddhism > China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • What is the Chinese Pure Land tradition?
  • The development of the concept of the Pure Land
  • Self-power and other-power in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
  • Ethics and precepts in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
  • Defending Pure Land in late imperial China
  • Methods of nianfo in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
  • Lushan Huiyuan: the evolution of the first Pure Land patriarch
  • Conclusions.