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 | #2494011 in Books |  University of Hawaii Press |  2003-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.05 x6.14 x9.38l,.1 | File type: PDF | 328 pages

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||13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| "This Amida is not the Amida of one school or one person."|By Crazy Fox|Usually when we think of Pure Land Buddhism, the exclusive sectarian movements in Japan pioneered by Honen and Shinran come to mind. And indeed these are prominent traditions, but "Approaching the Land of Bliss" amply demonstrates that they're not the whole story by a long shot. The focus of this book the|About the Author|Richard K. Payne is dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Kenneth K. Tanaka is professor of Buddhist studies at Musashino Women's University, Tokyo. |Contributors: Daniel A. G

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 aim...

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