Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion and Culture

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With a foreword by Prof. Alfred Bloom. This completely new study of Japanese Shin Buddhism offers a valuable combination of historical development, carefully selected readings with commentaries and illustrations. Widely welcomed both for its scope as course work reader and as a general introduction to the subject.

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With a foreword by Prof. Alfred Bloom. This completely new study of Japanese Shin Buddhism offers a valuable combination of historical development, carefully selected readings with commentaries and illustrations. Widely welcomed both for its scope as course work reader and as a general introduction to the subject.

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Editorial Reviews

Charles B. Jones
Many of these selections put a new spin on some of the received knowledge of Japanese Buddhism....a truly comprehensive anthology of materials illuminating Shin Buddhism from many angles and providing its English-speaking audience with a multifaceted picture of this tradition, the spiritual wealth it possesses, and the challenges it faces in the modern world. I highly recommend it for the specialist's bookshelf, and for use by undergraduate and graduate students.
— Journal of Buddhist Ethics
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780824820282
  • Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, The
  • Publication date: 12/28/1997
  • Pages: 216
  • Product dimensions: 5.82 (w) x 9.74 (h) x 0.47 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Foreword
List of Illustrations
General Introduction 1
Pt. I Meeting Popular Japanese Buddhism 1
Pt. II The Development of Mahayana Buddhism 4
Ch. 1 Shinran - the Founder 13
1 Eshinni: Letter to Kakushinni 18
2 Kakunyo: Godensho 19
3 Shinran: Tannisho - chapters 1, 3 and 15 26
4 Shinran: Mattosho - excerpts from letters 1, 2 and 20 29
5 Shinran: Shoshinge - Hymn of True Shinjin and Nembutsu 32
Ch. 2 Shin Buddhism in the Modern Age 38
6 Kiyozawa Manshi: On Faith and Reason 40
7 Kiyozawa Manshi: Peace Beyond Ethics 42
8 Kiyozawa Manshi: My Religious Conviction 44
9 Akegarasu Haya: About Wisdom 46
10 Akegarasu Haya: Mind of Embracing All Things 48
11 Soga Ryojin: Dharmakara Bodhisattva 50
12 Kaneko Daiei: The Present Age and Our Present Situation 54
13 D. T. Suzuki: The Shin Teaching of Buddhism 56
14 D. T. Suzuki: Shin Buddhism and Christianity Compared 58
15 D. T. Suzuki: Shinran and Soren Kierkegaard 63
16 Hirose Takashi: Shinran's Ideas of Equality 64
Ch. 3 The Dobokai Movement 67
17 The Goal of the Shinshu Dobokai Movement 69
18 The Dobokai Movement - an Interview 71
19 Manual for Propagators of the Dobokai Movement 76
Ch. 4 Shin Buddhism and the Arts and Crafts 80
20 Shandao: Parable of the White Path 84
21 Kamo no Chomei: From 'The Ten Foot Square Hut' 87
22 Issa Kobayashi: From 'The Year of My Life' 89
23 Issa Kobayashi: From 'The Seventh Journal' 90
24 Issa Kobayashi: Haiku 91
25 Saichi Asahara: Poems of a myokonin 91
26 Yanagi Soetsu: The Dharma Gate of Beauty - Shin Aesthetics 92
27 'Doshu of Akao' - a Woodblock Print by Munakata 96
28 Niwa Fumio: A Child's Ho-onko 97
Ch. 5 Rituals in Shin Buddhist Temples - notably Higashi Honganji 101
29 Plan of Higashi Honganji 104
30 Ho-onko at Higashi Honganji, 1992 - a Description 106
31 Ho-onko Time Schedule, 1992 114
32 Susu-harai at Higashi Honganji, 1992 118
33 Ho-onko at Murakami, Niigata, 1992 120
Ch. 6 Death and Burial in Shin Buddhism 126
34 Procedure for Funerals - Excerpts from a Handbook for Shinshu Priests 128
35 Rennyo: White Ashes - a Letter 129
36 A Shumidan Ceremony at Higashi Honganji, 1993 132
37 Shin Buddhist Viewpoints on Death and Burial - an Interview 134
Ch. 7 Shin Buddhist Education 140
38 Kiyozawa Manshi: Opening Ceremony Address of Shinshu University 1901 141
39 Shin Buddhist Viewpoints on Education - an Interview 142
40 The Theological Seminary: Senshu Gakuin, Yamashina 147
41 Religious Education at Otani High and Junior High School 149
Ch. 8 Shin Buddhist Mission in Hawai'i 151
42 Hazama Tatsuyo: Young Picture Bride 153
43 Kikuchi Shigeo: 7 December 1941 155
44 David Kobata: Memoirs of a Japanese Buddhist in Hawai'i - an Interview 158
45 Daniel K. Inouye: You Dirty Japs 162
46 Shin Buddhist Mission in Hawai'i - an Interview 163
47 Oshogatsu - New Year's Day 168
48 Haneda Nobuo: The Future of Shinshu Buddhism in America 171
49 Imamura Ryo: Excerpt from a Sermon 173
50 K. P. Kramer & K. K. Tanaka: Excerpt from a Buddhist-Christian Dialogue 175
51 Overview: Tensions in Shin Buddhism Today 178
Postscript: Appraisal of Shin Buddhism in the Modern World 181
Notes on Readings 185
Bibliography 188
Glossary of Japanese Words 194
Index 197
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