The Life of Shinran Shonin
Author | : Alfred Bloom |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Alfred Bloom |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Shinran |
Publisher | : World Wisdom, Inc |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1933316217 |
Shinran (1173-1262) is the founder of the Jodo Shinshu Pure Land Buddhist tradition in Japan during the Kamakura period. This movement, once set in motion, eventually became the largest Buddhist sect in Japan and spread to the West at the end of the nineteenth century. Renowned scholar of Shin Buddhism, Alfred Bloom, presents the life and spiritual legacy of Shinran Shonin, the influential religious reformer and founder of Pure Land Buddhism, the most popular school of Buddhism in Japan today. Bloom presents a wide selection of Shinran's essential writings on the key Shin Buddhist idea of true entrusting (shinjin) to the Other-Power of Amida Buddha through His Vow to save all sentient beings. The Essential Teachings of Shinran, also, includes a foreword by Shin Buddhist scholar, Rueben Habito, a detailed glossary of foreign terms, and a select bibliography for further reading.
Author | : Norihiko Kikumura |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Priests, Shin |
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Author | : Takamichi Takahatake |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0889205868 |
The Japanese Pure Land master Shinran (1173–1262) was a product of his age. His angst in the period of the decay of the Dharma, his subsequent search for spiritual liberation, and his ultimate discovery of the path of the nembutsu could not have occurred isolated from the social temper of his time, any more than his religious thought could have developed beyond the fabric of traditional Japanese Buddhist teachings and practices. This study concentrates on the relationship between Shinran's experiences in the first half of his life and his historical and social environment. Both the boldness and subtlety of his ideas begin to emerge in this examination, moving beyond the hagiographical limitations often characteristic of research into the Shin tradition. Numerous Shinran studies have been bound by the limitations of either purely historical or religious-philosophical analysis. But these two approaches have rarely been combined, and since Shinran's early life and his cultural environment together constitute not only the basis but also the matrix of his mature thought and practice, such a combination reveals both the power of his ideas and the cultural factors that stimulated their development.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-09-30 |
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ISBN | : 9780999526675 |
The second edition of the 2nd volume of The Seeker series. It is the life story of a Japanese Buddhist teacher Shinran.
Author | : Takamaro Shigaraki |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2013-02-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1614290601 |
In his Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path, Takamaro Shigaraki examines Shin Buddhism anew as a practical path of spiritual growth and self-transformation, challenging assessments of the tradition as a passive religion of mere faith. Shigaraki presents the core themes of the Shin Buddhist path in fresh, engaging, down-to-earth language, considering each frankly from both secular and religious perspectives. Shigaraki discloses a nondual Pure Land that finds philosophical kinship with Zen but has been little discussed in the West. With its unassuming language and insights drawn from a life of practice, Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path dispels the fog of misconception that has shrouded Western appreciation of Shin traditions to reveal the limitless light of Amida Buddha that reaches all.
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : James C. Dobbins |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2004-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824828707 |
Eshinni (1182–1268?), a Buddhist nun and the wife of Shinran (1173–1262), the celebrated founder of the True Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhism, was largely unknown until the discovery of a collection of her letters in 1921. In this study, James C. Dobbins, a leading scholar of Pure Land Buddhism, has made creative use of these letters to shed new light on life and religion in medieval Japan. He provides a complete translation of the letters and an explication of them that reveals the character and flavor of early Shin Buddhism. Readers will come away with a new perspective on Pure Land scholarship and a vivid image of Eshinni and the world in which she lived. After situating the ideas and practices of Pure Land Buddhism in the context of the actual living conditions of thirteenth-century Japan, Dobbins examines the portrayal of women in Pure Land Buddhism, the great range of lifestyles found among medieval women and nuns, and how they constructed a meaningful religious life amid negative stereotypes. He goes on to analyze aspects of medieval religion that have been omitted in our modern-day account of Pure Land and tries to reconstruct the religious assumptions of Eshinni and Shinran in their own day. A prevailing theme that runs throughout the book is the need to look beyond idealized images of Buddhism found in doctrine to discover the religion as it was lived and practiced. Scholars and students of Buddhism, Japanese history, women’s studies, and religious studies will find much in this engaging work that is thought-provoking and insightful.
Author | : 宗昭 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1911 |
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Author | : Hee-Sung Keel |
Publisher | : Jain Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2002-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780895819383 |
Understanding Shinran offers a sensitive and balanced examination of the life and teachings of the founder of Pure Land Buddhism. The author shows how the ongoing drama of salvation through the grace of Amida -- a mutual engagement of form and the formless, of ignorant humans and the awakened Buddha -- can be read as a message of hope by Buddhists and Christians alike.