Renegade Monk : Hōnen and Japanese Pure Land Buddhism / Soho Machida ; translated and edited by Ioannis Mentzas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Machida, Sōhō, 1950-

Contributor:

Mentzas, Ioannis.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Hōnen, 1133-1212.

Hōnen.

Jōdoshū--Doctrines.

Jōdoshū.

Pure Land Buddhism--Japan--History.

Pure Land Buddhism.

Japan.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 203 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]

Summary:

A biography and intellectual analysis of Honen, the medieval founder of the largest sect of Buddhism in twelfth century Japan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.

ISBN:

0520211790

OCLC:

39182488