Interpreting Amida : history and Orientalism in the study of Pure Land Buddhism / Galen Amstutz.

Author
Amstutz, Galen Dean [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Description
xii, 248 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    SUNY series in Buddhist studies [More in this series]
    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.
    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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