Four Shin Buddhist thinkers reflect on their tradition's encounter with modernity.
Mark L. Blum is Professor of Japanese at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism: A Study and Translation of Gyonen's Jodo Homon Genrusho and the coeditor (with Shin'ya Yasutomi) of Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism. Robert F. Rhodes is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Otani University.
Foreword
p. vii
Abbreviations
p. xi
Shin Buddhism in the Meiji Period
p. 1
Kiyozawa Manshi
Kiyozawa Manshi: Life and Thought
p. 55
Why Do Buddhists Lack Self-Respect?
p. 67
Negotiating Religious Morality and Common Morality
p. 77
The Nature of My Faith
p. 93
Soga Ryojin
Soga Ryojin: Life and Thought
p. 101
A Savior on Earth: The Meaning of Dharmakara Bodhisattva's Advent
p. 107
Shinran's View of Buddhist History
p. 119
Lectures on the Tannisho
p. 139
Kameko Daiei
Kaneko Daiei: Life and Thought
p. 159
Prolegomena to Shin Buddhist Studies
p. 173
Yasuda Rijin
Yasuda Rijin: Life and Thought
p. 217
The Practical Understanding of Buddhism
p. 233
The Mirror of Nothingness
p. 233
A Name but Not a Name Alone
p. 239
Combined Glossary
p. 267
Bibliography
p. 279
Index
p. 299
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