Pure Land, Real World : Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination
Pure Land, Real WorldModern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination
Author(s): Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Richard K. Payne
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States
Imprint: University of Hawai'i Press
ISBN-13: 9780824892449, 978-0824892449
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For close to a thousand years Amidas Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of shared happiness circulating in the Japanese imagination. In the late nineteenth century, some Buddhist thinkers sought to reinterpret the Pure Land in ways that would allow it speak to modern Japan. Their efforts succeeded in ways they could not have predicted. During the war years, economist Kawakami Hajime, philosopher Miki Kiyoshi, and historian Ienaga Sabur?left-leaning thinkers with no special training in doctrinal studies and no strong connection to any Buddhist institutionseized upon modernized images of Shinran in exile and a transcendent Western Paradise to .
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Pure Land, Real WorldModern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination
Author(s): Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Richard K. Payne
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States
Imprint: University of Hawai'i Press
ISBN-13: 9780824892449, 978-0824892449
Synopsis
For close to a thousand years Amidas Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of shared happiness circulating in the Japanese imagination. In the late nineteenth century, some Buddhist thinkers sought to reinterpret the Pure Land in ways that would allow it speak to modern Japan. Their efforts succeeded in ways they could not have predicted. During the war years, economist Kawakami Hajime, philosopher Miki Kiyoshi, and historian Ienaga Sabur?left-leaning thinkers with no special training in doctrinal studies and no strong connection to any Buddhist institutionseized upon modernized images of Shinran in exile and a transcendent Western Paradise to .
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Pure Land, Real WorldModern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination
Author(s): Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Richard K. Payne
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States
Imprint: University of Hawai'i Press
ISBN-13: 9780824892449, 978-0824892449
Synopsis
For close to a thousand years Amidas Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of shared happiness circulating in the Japanese imagination. In the late nineteenth century, some Buddhist thinkers sought to reinterpret the Pure Land in ways that would allow it speak to modern Japan. Their efforts succeeded in ways they could not have predicted. During the war years, economist Kawakami Hajime, philosopher Miki Kiyoshi, and historian Ienaga Sabur?left-leaning thinkers with no special training in doctrinal studies and no strong connection to any Buddhist institutionseized upon modernized images of Shinran in exile and a transcendent Western Paradise to .
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format | paperback |
Language | english |
Brand | University of Hawai'i Press |
series | pure land buddhist studies |
type | textbook |
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