- Hardcover: 492 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (4 April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 019512524X
- ISBN-13: 978-0195125245
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 16.9 x 3.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,143,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a remarkably detailed study of a text that has not been accessible to many nonspecialists and that reveals a good deal about the early Jodo tradition and Japanese Buddhist historiography. Blum is owed much gratitude for not only making the translation available (that alone would have been a service), but doing so in such a thorough and meticulous fashion. The details provided here will be grist for many future studies. (Monumenta Nipponica )
The translation is clear and accurate ... Especially helpful for specialists and nonspecialists alike are the extensive notes for virtually all of the texts, personages, places, and buddhological terms appearing in the text ... this is exceptional scholarship with meticulous attention to detail. (Monumenta Nipponica )
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. (Monumenta Nipponica )
The translation is clear and accurate ... Especially helpful for specialists and nonspecialists alike are the extensive notes for virtually all of the texts, personages, places, and buddhological terms appearing in the text ... this is exceptional scholarship with meticulous attention to detail. (Monumenta Nipponica )
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. (Monumenta Nipponica )
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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.
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By the dawn of the Kamakura period (1185-1333), Buddhism had sunk its roots into the cultural soil of Japan for more than six centuries, and reference to the Pure Land is evident from the outset. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
By the dawn of the Kamakura period (1185-1333), Buddhism had sunk its roots into the cultural soil of Japan for more than six centuries, and reference to the Pure Land is evident from the outset. Read the first page
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