The origins and development of Pure Land Buddhism : a study and translation of Gyōnen's Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō
Title:
The origins and development of Pure Land Buddhism : a study and translation of Gyōnen's Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō
Jōdo hōmon genrushō.
Jodo Homon Genrusho.
Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō. English.
Author:
Blum, Mark Laurence.
ISBN:
9780195125245
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Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Physical Description:
xxi, 470 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
pt. I. Gyonen and Kamakura Pure Land Buddhism -- 1. The legacy of Honen: Japanese Pure Land Buddhism in the Kamakura period -- 2. Forging an historical identity for Pure Land Buddhism: as Gyonen saw it -- 3. The life and thought of Gyonen: from precepts to Pure Land -- 4. Gyonen as Buddhist historian: scholarship as praxis -- 5. Textcritic information: a history of the Jodo homon genrusho -- pt. II. The Origins and Development of the Pure Land Teaching: Translation of the Jodo homon genrusho -- 1. Scripture -- 2. Propagation of the Pure Land teaching and lineage: India -- 3. China -- 4. Japan (up to Honen) -- 5. Kosai and the one nenbutsu -- 6. Ryukan and the many nenbutsu -- 7. Shoku and the seizan branch -- 8. Shoko and the chinzei branch, chosai, and others -- Colophon to the Bunka edition -- pt. III. Facsimile of the 1814 Xylograph of the Jodo homon genrusho -- App. A. Concordance to the Jodo homon genrusho facsimile -- App. B. Gyonen's Pure Land beliefs -- App. C. Extant works of Gyonen.
Abstract:
"In this study, Mark L. Blum combines a critical look at the thought and impact of the late-thirteenth-century intellectual Gyonen and the emergent Pure Land school of Buddhism founded by Honen. Gyonen created a hermeneutic that presented Buddhism as a historical expression of universal values with roots outside of Japan. His Pure Land text is a work that documents the transmission and philosophical evolution of this school from India to China to Japan."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-441) and index.
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