The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism A Study and Translation of Gyonen's Jodo Homon Genrusho

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ISBN: 9780195125245 | 019512524X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/21/2002

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In this book, Mark Blum offers a critical look at the thought and impact of the late 13th-century Buddhist historian Gyonen (1240-1321) and the emergent Pure Land school of Buddhism founded by Honen (1133-1212). Blum also provides a clear and fully annotated translation of Gyonen's Jodo homon genrusho , the first history of Pure Land Buddhism.

Conventions and Abbreviations

xvii

Part I: Gyonen and Kamakura Pure Land Buddhism

(142)

The Legacy of Honen: Japanese Pure Land Buddhism in the Kamakura Period

(18)

Issues in Kamakura Pure Land Thought

(3)

Expanding the Shan-tao Tradition: the Uniqueness of Nenbutsu

(5)

In Search of a Normative Practice: Recitation and Samabhi

(4)

In Gyonen's View

(3)

Forging an Historical Identity for Pure Land Buddhism: As Gyonen Saw It

(30)

A History of the Pure Land Teaching

(4)

The Disciples of Honen

(14)

Significant by Their Absence: Masters Missing from the Genrusho

(5)

The Genrusho Perspective

(6)

The Life and Thought of Gyonen: From Precepts to Pure Land

(18)

Sources

(3)

Biographical Summary

(14)

Gyonen as Buddhist Historian: Scholarship as Praxis

(64)

Gyonen's Historical Model

(3)

Reassertion of a Traditional View of the Precepts

(2)

Mappo and the Perception of Decline

(10)

The Sangoku Construct: Buddhism Defined as Indian, Chinese, and Japanese

(6)

Kakuken's Sangoku dentoki as Prototype for Gyonen's Theoretical Framework

(4)

Comparing Gyonen with Kakuken

(4)

Sectarian Ambiguity and Institutional Legitimation

101

(17)

Back to Nara

118

(5)

Conclusion

123

(10)

Textcritic Information: A History of the Jodo homon genrusho

133

(10)

Xylograph Editions of the Genrusho

135

(3)

Modern Editions

138

(1)

Commentaries

138

(2)

Translator's Note

140

(3)

Part II: The Origins and Development of the Pure Land Teaching: Translation of the Jodo homon genrusho

143

(154)

Preface

145

(2)

Scripture

147

(18)

Propagation of the Pure Land Teaching and Lineage: India

165

(16)

China

181

(16)

Japan (up to Honen)

197

(14)

Kosai and the One Nenbutsu

211

(22)

Ryukan and the Many Nenbutsu

233

(12)

Shoku and the Seizan Branch

245

(26)

Shoko and the Chinzei Branch, Chosai, and Others

271

(26)

Colophon to the Bunka Edition

295

(2)

Part III: Facsimile of the 1814 Xylograph of the Jodo homon genrusho

297

(72)

Appendix A: Concordance to the Jodo homon genrusho Facsimile

369

(2)

Appendix B: Gyonen's Pure Land Beliefs

371

(18)

Appendix C: Extant Works of Gyonen

389

(6)

Bibliography of Primary Sources

395

(24)

Bibliography of Secondary Sources

419

(24)

Select Glossary

443

(10)

Index

453

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The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism A Study and Translation of Gyonen's Jodo Homon Genrusho

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