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Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha. Edited by Richard K. Payne and Kenneth K. Tanaka. Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 17. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Pp. 328. Cloth $32.00.

For most scholars even tenuously familiar with Asian religions, Pure Land Buddhism often brings to mind the charismatic figures of Honen and Shinran, "founders" of two Pure Land sects (Jodoshu and Jodo Shinshu) of medieval Japan. Virtually every introductory text concludes its summary of Pure Land forms by recounting the radical teaching ...

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