The Essential Shinran: A Buddhist Path of True Entrusting

by Alfred Bloom (Editor)

Overview

Renowned scholar Alfred Bloom presents the life and teachings of Shinran Shonin, the founder of Shin (or Pure Land) Buddhism, the most populist form of Buddhism in Japan, drawing extensively on the writings of this influential Japanese religious reformer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933316888
Publisher:	World Wisdom
Publication date:	12/21/2006
Series:	Spiritual Masters: East and West
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	782 KB

About the Author

Alfred Bloom, former professor at the University of Hawaii and Dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California, is the author of Shinran’s Gospel of Pure Grace and editor of Living in Amida’s Universal Vow.