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Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion and Culture

✍ Scribed by Esben Andreasen

Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Leaves
216
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This completely new study of Japanese Shin Buddhism offers a valuable combination of historical development and present-day practice supported by carefully selected readings and commentaries. Additional value is provided by the many illustrations which illuminate the text.

Esben Andreasen's excellent and very accessible study, therefore, will be widely welcomed, both for its scope as a coursework reader, and as a general introduction to this much-neglected area of Buddhist practice. It will also go a long way to reforming the general view in the West that Zen is the principal Buddhist expression in Japan—when, as a matter of fact, it is a minority religion.

Alfred Bloom's helpful Postcript reminds us that Shin Buddhism is a tradition some 800 years in development, and that "its basic approach to spiritual emancipation or deliverance stresses faith and the recitation of the name Namo Amida Butsu as an expression of gratitude for the deliverance offered by Amida Buddha through his Primal Vows."

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