Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan: Volume 2

Intro -- Contents -- Part 5 Formation of a Major Institution: Honganji and Its Negotiations with Popular Consciousness -- From Inspiration to Institution: The Rise of Sectarian Identity in Jōdo Shinshū -- Shin Buddhist Attitudes towards the Kami: From Shinran to Rennyo -- Popular Pure Land Teachings...

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Main Author: Amstutz, Galen (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Boston BRILL 2020
In:Year: 2020
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Summary:Intro -- Contents -- Part 5 Formation of a Major Institution: Honganji and Its Negotiations with Popular Consciousness -- From Inspiration to Institution: The Rise of Sectarian Identity in Jōdo Shinshū -- Shin Buddhist Attitudes towards the Kami: From Shinran to Rennyo -- Popular Pure Land Teachings of the Zenkōji Nyorai and Shinran -- Stand by Your Founder Honganji's Struggle with Funeral Orthodoxy -- Steadied Ambiguity: the Afterlife in "Popular" Shin Buddhism -- Ambivalence Regarding Women and Female Gender in Premodern Shin Buddhism -- Part 6 The Alternative Field: Pure Land Striven for in This World -- Ippen and Pure Land Buddhist Wayfarers in Medieval Japan -- The Shingon Subordinating Fire Offering for Amitābha, "Amida Kei Ai Goma" -- Breath of Life: the Esoteric Nembutsu -- Jōkei and the Rhetoric of "Other-Power" and "Easy Practice" in Medieval Japanese Buddhism -- Part 7 Pure Land Fellowships in War and Peace -- The Life of Rennyo: A Struggle for the Transmission of Dharma -- The Dilemma of Religious Power: Honganji and Hosokawa Masamoto -- Shin Buddhism and Burakumin in the Edo Period -- Precepts in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism: The Jōdoshū -- Exemplary Lives: Form and Function in Pure Land Sacred Biography -- Preaching as Performance: Notes on a Secretive Shin Buddhist Sermon -- The Nianfo in Ōbaku Zen: a Look at the Teachings of the Three Founding Masters -- Extreme Asceticism, Medicine and Pure Land Faith in the Life of Shuichi Munō (1683-1719).
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ISBN:9004401512