The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism
A Study and Translation of Gyonen's Jodo Homon Genrusho
Blum, Mark L.
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, State University of New York at Albany
Print publication date: 2002 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512524-5 |
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From Precepts to Pure Land
doi:10.1093/019512524X.003.0003
Abstract: This chapter and the next critically consider the figure of Gy
 nen himself, as this is the first study of this Buddhist master outside Japan. Chapter 3 presents an overview of the life and career of Gynen based on the earliest known biographical material, most of which was collated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. An outline is given of the available biographical sources, and this is followed by a biographical summary.Keywords: bibliographies, biographies, Buddhism, Buddhist history, Gy nen,
Japan,
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