Renegade Monk - Honen and Japanese Pure Land Buddhism

Informationen zum Autor Soho Machida is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at National University. Ioannis Mentzas is a Ph.D. candidate in the Deptartment of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Klappentext "An original and highly stimulating approach. Honen! the founder of the Pure Land sect! has been greatly underestimated and neglected in modern studies of Japanese Buddhism. Notable for making connections with Christian liberation theology and for establishing the social significance of the Pure Land movement! this book will make excellent reading in courses on world religion! Japanese religion! and religion and society."-Alfred Bloom! author of Shinran's Gospel of Pure Grace "Soho Machida's original! provocative study of Honen secures his place in Japanese intellectual history; and his bold advocacy of Pure Land practice forms a watershed in Japanese Buddhism! dividing the old and new! hierarchical and egalitarian! elitist and popular faith."-Taitetsu Unno "Machida has thrusted Honen to his deserved place at the center stage of Pure Land Buddhist development. We are drawn closer to Honen as a person and a spiritual genius who not only established Pure Land as an independent tradition but also impacted the overall Japanese Buddhist ethos of his time. The West`s perception of Pure Land Buddhism has been forever transformed by this superb work."-Kenneth K. Tanaka! Musashino Women`s University! Tokyo Zusammenfassung The Pure Land sect of Japanese Buddhism is one of the strongest Buddhist sects in Japan, with three and a half million followers. In this book, the author provides a detailed, objective account in English of the life and thought of its founder, Honenbo Genku (1133-1212), known as Honen.

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• Authors: S. Machida, Soho Machida, Soohoo Machida
• Assisted by: Ioannis Mentzas (Editor), Mentzas Ioannis (Editor), Ioannis Mentzas (Translation), Mentzas Ioannis (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1999
• EAN: 9780520211797
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21179-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Japan, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Buddhism, CE period up to c 1500, Asian History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Non-Western philosophy, Biography: historical, political and military