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Approaching the Land of Bliss - Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha (Paperback)
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Approaching the Land of Bliss - Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha (Paperback)
Series: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
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The discourse of Buddhist studies has traditionally been structured
around texts and nations (the transmission of Buddhism from India
to China to Japan). And yet, it is doubtful that these categories
reflect in any significant way the organizing themes familiar to
most Buddhists. It could be argued that cultic practices associated
with particular buddhas and bodhisattvas are more representative of
the way Buddhists conceive of their relation to tradition. This
volume aims to explore this aspect of Buddhism by focusing on one
of its most important cults, that of the Buddha Amitabha.
Approaching the Land of Bliss is a rich collection of studies of
texts and ritual practices devoted to Amitabha, ranging from Tibet
to Japan and from early medieval times to the present. The cult of
Amitabha is identified as an integral part of Tibet's Mahayana
Buddhist tradition in the opening essay by Matthew Kapstein. Next
Daniel Getz, Jr., locates the Pure Land patriarch Shengchang more
firmly in a Huayancontext and his Pure Conduct Society not so much
in the propagation of Pure Land praxis but as a means of modifying
anti-Buddhist sentiments. Jacqueline Stone's study of the practice
of reciting nenbutsu at the time of death gives us an understanding
of both the practice itself and the motivating logic behind it.
Kakuban-the founder of the one major ""schism"" in the history of
the Shingon tradition-is placed in a typology of Japanese Pure Land
thought inJames Sanford's study of Kakuban's Amida hishaku. Hank
Glassman contributes an essay on the ""subsidiary cult"" of
Chujohime, whichderived from the cult of Amitabha but grew to such
importance that it displaced the latter as the focus of worship in
medieval Japan. In his examination of ""radical Amidism,"" Fabio
Rambelli discusses different forms of Japanese Pure Land thought
that constitute divergences from the mainstream or normative forms.
Richard Jaffeexamines the work of the seventeenth-century cleric
Ungo Kiyo, who sought to match his teaching to the needs and
capacities of hisdisciples. Todd Lewis highlights the importance of
cultic life and finds traces of the desire for rebirth into
Sukhavati in stupa worship among Newari Buddhists. Charles Jones'
""thick description"" of a one-day recitation retreat in Taiwan
provides us with a closer look at how the cult of Amitabha
continues in present-day East Asia. Approaching the Land of Bliss
moves beyond the limitations of defining Buddhism in terms of its
textual corpus or nation states,opening up the cult of Amitabha in
Nepal, Tibet, China, and Taiwan, and uncovering new aspects of
Japanese Pure Land. Contributors: Daniel A. Getz, Jr.; Hank
Glassman; Richard Jaffe; Charles B. Jones; Matthew T. Kapstein;
Todd T. Lewis; Richard K. Payne; Fabio Rambelli; James H. Sanford;
Jacqueline I. Stone.
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