An edition of Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism (2000)
Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism
Creating a Shin Buddhist Theology in a Religiously Plural World (S U N Y Series in Buddhist Studies)
By Dennis Hirota
Publish Date
April 2000
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Language
eng
Pages
257
Description:
"Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism offers proposals for creatively reinterpreting the Pure Land path. Japanese Pure Land thought brought about a major development in Buddhist tradition by evolving a path to enlightenment that is pursued while carrying on life in society. It is rooted in the Mahayana ideal of compassion and in the bodhisattva, or being of wisdom, who vows to ferry all living things to the other shore of awakening.". "In this book, three Buddhist scholars utilize hermeneutic thought, process theology, and the mandala contemplation of Buddhism to address issues of modernity and religious values in the world today. In addition, the work proceeds to offer a new model of interreligious dialogue."--BOOK JACKET.