Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan (3 Vols.)

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-40140-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 1108 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1 g

Reihe: Critical Readings

Pure Land was one of the main fields of mythopoesis and discourse among the Asian Buddhist traditions, and in Japan of central cultural importance from the Heian period right up to the present. However, its range, inconsistency, variability, and complexity have tended to be misevaluated. The pieces reproduced in this set, organized both chronologically and thematically, have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity of what evolved under this heading of Buddhism. Special attention is given to the traps into which Western observers may fall, the role of the large True Pure Land (Jodoshinshu) school, and the richness of Tokugawa and twentieth-century developments. These selections of previously published articles will serve as an essential starting point for anyone interested in this perhaps underestimated area of Buddhist studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amstutz, Galen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Brill Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan

part 1: Useful Overarching Perspectives

1 Buddhism as a Religion of Hope: Observations on the “Logic” of a Doctrine and Its Foundational Myth

Luis O. Gómez

2 Pure Land Buddhism as an Alternative Marga

Mark L. Blum

part 2: Early Presence in Japan

3 The Development of Mappo Thought in Japan (I)

Michele Marra

4 The Development of Mappo Thought in Japan (II)

Michele Marra

5 The Growth of Pure Land Buddhism in the Heian Period

Robert F. Rhodes

6 Ojoyoshu, Nihon Ojo Gokuraku-ki, and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan

Robert F. Rhodes

7 With the Help of “Good Friends”

Deathbed Ritual Practices in Early Medieval Japan

Jacqueline I. Stone

part 3: Turn to the Nembutsu as the Sole Solution

8 Honen on Attaining Pure Land Rebirth: the Selected Nenbutsu of the Original Vow

Allan A. Andrews

9 Honen and Popular Pure Land Piety: Assimilation and Transformation

Allan A. Andrews

10 Socio-Economic Impacts of Honen’s Pure Land Doctrines: an Inquiry into the Interplay between Buddhist Teachings and Institutions

Martin Repp

part 4: Shinran’s More Radical Turn to the Enlightenment Gift as an Involuntary Emergent Property

11 Faith: Its Arising

Alfred Bloom

12 “Rely on the Meaning, Not on the Words”

Shinran’s Methodology and Strategy for Reading Scriptures and Writing the Kyogyoshinsho

Eisho Nasu

part 5: Formation of a Major Institution: Honganji and its Negotiations with Popular Consciousness

13 From Inspiration to Institution

The Rise of Sectarian Identity in Jodo Shinshu

James C. Dobbins

14 Shin Buddhist Attitudes towards the Kami

From Shinran to Rennyo

Robert F. Rhodes

15 Popular Pure Land Teachings of the Zenkoji Nyorai and Shinran

Eisho Nasu

16 Stand by Your Founder

Honganji’s Struggle with Funeral Orthodoxy

Mark L. Blum

17 Steadied Ambiguity: the Afterlife in “Popular” Shin Buddhism

Galen Amstutz

18 Ambivalence Regarding Women and Female Gender in Premodern Shin Buddhism

Galen Amstutz

part 6: The Alternative Field: Pure Land Striven for in This World

19 Ippen and Pure Land Buddhist Wayfarers in Medieval Japan

James H. Foard

20 The Shingon Subordinating Fire Offering for Amitabha, “Amida Kei Ai Goma”

Richard K. Payne

21 Breath of Life: the Esoteric Nembutsu

James H. Sanford

22 Jokei and the Rhetoric of “Other-Power” and “Easy Practice” in Medieval Japanese Buddhism

James L. Ford

part 7: Pure Land Fellowships in War and Peace

23 The Life of Rennyo

A Struggle for the Transmission of Dharma

Yasutomi Shin’ya

24 The Dilemma of Religious Power

Honganji and Hosokawa Masamoto

Michael Solomon

25 Shin Buddhism and Burakumin in the Edo Period

Galen Amstutz

26 Precepts in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism

The Jodoshu

James C. Dobbins

27 Exemplary Lives

Form and Function in Pure Land Sacred Biography

Michael Bathgate

28 Preaching as Performance

Notes on a Secretive Shin Buddhist Sermon

Clark Chilson

29 The Nianfo in Obaku Zen: a Look at the Teachings of the Three Founding Masters

James Baskind

30 Extreme Asceticism, Medicine and Pure Land Faith in the Life of Shuichi Muno (1683–1719)

Paul Groner

part 8: Meiji and Modernity: Political Resettlement and Realignment, Moments of Intellectual Hybridization, Emigration, Collaboration, Postwar Progressivism, Lingering Conservatism

31 Shin Buddhism in the Meiji Period

Mark L. Blum

32 Against Buddhist Unity: Murakami Sensho and His Sectarian Critics

Ryan Ward

33 The Honganji: Guardian of the State (1868–1945)

Minor L. Rogers and Ann T. Rogers

34 Shinran’s Thought in Present-Day Japan

Gerhard Schepers

35 Propagation, Accommodation and Negotiating Social Capital: Jodo Shinshu Responses to Contemporary Crises

Jørn Borup

36 Family Temples and Religious Learning in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Jessica Starling

37 Shin Buddhist Studies and Secularization

Mitsuya Dake

38 Amida and Pure Land within a Contemporary Worldview: From Shinran’s Literal Symbolism to Figurative Symbolism

Kenneth K. Tanaka

39 The Medieval and the Modern in Shin Buddhism

James C. Dobbins

40 Rethinking Acculturation in the Postmodern World

Michihiro Ama

41 Nenbutsu and Meditation: Problems with the Categories of Contemplation, Devotion, Meditation, and Faith

Lisa Grumbach

Index of Personal Names

Über Autor(innen)

Galen D. Amstutz (Ph.D. Religion and East Asian Studies 1992, Princeton University) has served in a variety of roles including librarian, ESL teacher, Buddhist minister, college professor in the United States, Germany and Japan, translator, journal editor, and administrator at Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. He is currently an adjunct instructor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies (affiliate of Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California) and publishes on Pure Land Buddhism, starting with Interpreting Amida (1997).