Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm'
A Translation and Study
In this book, Charles B. Jones provides the first English language translation of one of the most important texts of modern Chinese Buddhism: monk-reformer Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm'. The essay, written in 1926 as part of Taixu's attempt to revive Chinese Buddhism with a Humanistic Buddhist approach, incorporates Western thought into a reconstruction of the idea of the 'Pure Land in the human realm'. In his commentary on the text, Jones argues that it has been widely misunderstood and mischaracterized.Jones demonstrates that, besides laying out the very modern idea of the Pure Land in the human realm as…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-14427-9
- EAN: 9781350144279
- Produktnummer: 35458753
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 783 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 bw illus
Über den Autor
Charles B. Jones is Professor at The Catholic University of America, USA
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