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Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism

By Dennis Hirota

Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism book

Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism

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Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism offers proposals for creatively reinterpreting the Pure Land path. Japanese Pure Land thought brought about a major development in Buddhist tradition by evolving a path to enlightenment that is pursued while carrying on life in society. It is rooted in the Mahayana ideal of compassion and in the bodhisattva or being of wisdom who vows to ferry all living things to the other shore of awakening. In this book, three Buddhist scholars utilize hermeneutic thought, process theology, and the mandala contemplation of Buddhism to address issues of modernity and religious values in the world today. Proceeding as a conversation with two prominent Christian theologians, the book also presents a new model of interreligious dialogue. Gordon D. Kaufman and John B. Cobb, Jr. reflect critically in different chapters on the Buddhist proposals, drawing on their long experience as religious philosophers facing questions of the present intelligibility and applicability of Christian thought.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
267
Release Date:
2000-03-31
Publication Date:
2000-03-31
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0791445305
ISBN13:
9780791445303
Weight:
367 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
227 cm
Thickness:
15 cm

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