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Interpreting Amida : history and Orientalism in the study of Pure Land Buddhism / Galen Amstutz.
Author
Amstutz, Galen Dean
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Description
xii, 248 pages ; 24 cm.
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BQ8712.3 .A47 1997
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Subject(s)
Shin (Sect)
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History
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Pure Land Buddhism
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Study and teaching
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Series
SUNY series in Buddhist studies
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-240) and index.
Contents
Preface: Shin Buddhism and Orientalist Interpretation
1. Background: Pure Land Buddhism from India to the Modern Period
2. Modernization
3. Interpreting Pure Land Buddhism before the Nineteenth Century
4. Interpreting Pure Land from the 1870s through World War II
5. Interpreting Pure Land in the Postwar Period
6. Interpreting Pure Land in the Future: A Concluding Prognosis
App. Other Missionaries' and Outside Observers' Reports on Shin in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
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ISBN
0791433099 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
9780791433096 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
0791433102 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
9780791433102 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
96024300
OCLC
34772352
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