Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism - Creating a Shin Buddhist Theology in a Religiously Plural World

About the author

Dennis Hirota is Professor of Asian Studies at Chikushi Jogakuen University, Dazaifu, Japan. He is the head translator of The Collected Works of Shinran and has published extensively on Pure Land Buddhist thought and Buddhist aesthetics in both English and Japanese. His works include Plain Words on the Pure Land Way: Sayings of the Wandering Monks of Medieval Japan; Shinran: An Introduction to His Thought; No Abode: The Record of Ippen; and Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dennis Hirota (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2000
• EAN: 9780791445303
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4530-3
• No. of pages: 267
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 227 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 367 g
• Series: Suny Buddhist Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions