The origins and development of Pure Land Buddhism : a study and translation of Gyonen's Jodo Homon Genrusho / Mark L. Blum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blum, Mark L., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pure Land Buddhism--History.

Pure Land Buddhism.

Jōdoshū--History.

Jōdoshū.

Gyonen, 1240-1321. Jodo Homon Genrusho.

Gyonen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the English translation of an influential medieval Japanese text, the Jodo Homon Genrusho of Gyonen (1240-1321). This text was the first history to be written of Pure Land Buddhism, which became the dominant school of Buddhism in Japan.

Contents:

3. The Life and Thought of Gyonen: From Precepts to Pure LandSources; Biographical Summary; 4. Gyonen as Buddhist Historian: Scholarship as Praxis; Gyonen's Historical Model; Reassertion of a Traditional View of the Precepts; Mappo and the Perception of Decline; The Sangoku Construct: Buddhism Defined as Indian, Chinese, and Japanese; Kakuken's Sangoku dentoki as Prototype for Gyonen's Theoretical Framework; Comparing Gyonen with Kakuken; Sectarian Ambiguity and Institutional Legitimation; Back to Nara; Conclusion; 5. Textcritic Information: A History of the Jodo homon genrusho

Xylograph Editions of the GenrushoModern Editions; Commentaries; Translator's Note; Part II: The Origins and Development of the Pure Land Teaching: Translation of the Jodo homon genrusho; Preface; Chapter 1: Scripture; Chapter 2: Propagation of the Pure Land Teaching and Lineage: India; Chapter 3: China; Chapter 4: Japan (up to Honen); Chapter 5: Kosai and the One Nenbutsu; Chapter 6: Ryukan and the Many Nenbutsu; Chapter 7: Shoku and the Seizan Branch; Chapter 8: Shoko and the Chinzei Branch, Chosai, and Others; Colophon to the Bunka Edition

Part III: Facsimile of the 1814 Xylograph of the Jodo homon genrushoAppendix A: Concordance to the Jodo homon genrusho Facsimile; Appendix B: Gyonen's Pure Land Beliefs; Appendix C: Extant Works of Gyonen; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Select Glossary; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-441) and index.

Contains:

Gyōnen, 1240-1321. Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō. English

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9786610530243

0-19-802898-9

1-280-53024-3

1-4294-0361-6

OCLC:

228116297