Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination 9780824857783

For close to a thousand years Amida’s Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of

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English Pages 256 Year 2017

Table of contents :
Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One. The Land in Pure Land
Chapter Two. The Modern Tradition
Chapter Three. Special Marxist, Special Buddhist
Chapter Four. Pure Land for the People
Chapter Five. Man without a Hometown
Epilogue. “Let Us Read Shinran, Young People!”
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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