Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts: An Anthology 9780824877149

Table of contents :
Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Editors’ Introduction
I. Ritual Practices
Overview
Chapter 1. The Consecration Scripture Spoken by the Buddha on Being Reborn in Whichever of the Pure Lands of the Ten Directions You Wish
Chapter 2. Esoteric Pure Land in Kakuban’s Thought
Chapter 3. Akṣobhya Homa Fire Offerings for the Buddha of the Eastern Pure Land
Chapter 4. Nenbutsu Practice in Genshin’s Ōjōyōshū
Chapter 5. Visions of the Pure Land from the Mind Treasury of Namchö Migyur Dorje
II. Contemplative Visualizations
Overview
Chapter 1. Liberating Desire
Chapter 2. Maitreya’s Tuṣita Heaven as a Pure Land in Gelukpa Forms of Tibetan Buddhism
Chapter 3. Amoghavajra’s Amitāyus Ritual Manual
Chapter 4. Dōhan’s Compendium on the Secret Contemplation of Buddha, Fascicle One
III. Doctrinal Expositions
Overview
Chapter 1. Answers to Forty-Eight Questions about Pure Land (Selections)
Chapter 2. The Role of Buddhism in Emperor Worship
Chapter 3. “The Future of American Buddhism”
Chapter 4. Naikan’s Path
Chapter 5. Wŏnhyo’s Commentary on the Amitābha Sūtra
IV. Life-Writing and Poetry
Overview
Chapter 1. Biographies from The Accounts of Those from Mount Kōya Who Have Attained Birth in a Pure Land
Chapter 2 Contemporary Pure Land Miracle Tales
Chapter 3. In Praise of His Mighty Name
Chapter 4. Pure Land Devotional Poetry by a Chan Monk
V. Ethical and Aesthetic Explications
Overview
Chapter 1. Religion and Ethics in the Thought of Kiyozawa Manshi
Chapter 2. The Pure Land and This World in Hishiki Masaharu’s Shin Buddhist Ethics
Chapter 3. Toward a Pure Land Buddhist Aesthetics
Chapter 4. A Confucian Pure Land?
Chapter 5. Tanaka Chigaku on “The Age of Unification”
VI. Worlds beyond Sukhāvatī
Overview
Chapter 1. The Divine Scripture on the Rebirth in the Pure Land of the Highest Cavern Mystery of Numinous Treasure
Chapter 2. A Manichaean Pure Land
Chapter 3. Śambhala as a Pure Land
Contributors
Index

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