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

ISBN-13: 9780195125245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 204 str.

Gyonen; Mark Laurence Blum

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Mark Blum has done an enormous service in making this text available to a wider audience. He offers the first translation of Genrusho in any modern language, and the quality of scholarship on the text is exemplary.