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Ojoyoshu, Nihon Ojo Gokuraku-ki, and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan
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The place of narrative in organizing our experience in the world has been the topic of much discussion in recent years. This paper starts from the position developed by the psychologist Jerome Bruner, who argues that there are two distinct modes of thought, the paradigmatic (or logico-scientific) and the narrative, and that they are equally important in ordering experience and constructing meaning. Texts written in both of these modes were crucial in the establishment of Pure Land Buddhism in...
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Tourists in Paradise: Writing the Pure Land in Medieval Japanese Fiction
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
; Late-medieval Japanese fiction contains numerous accounts of lay and monastic travelers to the Pure Land and other extra-human realms. In many cases, the "tourists" are granted guided tours, after which they are returned to the mundane world in order to tell of their unusual experiences. This
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Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
; Richard K. Payne and Kenneth K. Tanaka, eds., Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 17. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. ix+304 pp. $32.00, cloth, ISBN 0-8248-2578-0. PURE LAND Buddhism has often been
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Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha.(Book review)
Philosophy East and West
; 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
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Entering the Pure Land: Hanamatsuri and the Okagura Jodo-iri Ritual of Okumikawa
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
; While the concept of the Pure Land found its way into many mainstream Buddhist doctrines and practices, it also was adopted by yamabushi of the syncretistic Shugendo cult. This article examines one example of this incorporation, namely the kagura of the Okumikawa region (present-day Aichi
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Exemplary Lives: Form and Function in Pure Land Sacred Biography
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
; As a literature of exemplars, Pure Land sacred biography presents the reader with the ideals of a community as much as the events of individual lives. The models for the religious life advanced in sacred biographies, however, include not only the religious practices of their protagonists, but the
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Pure Lands in Japanese Religion
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
; (ProQuest Information and Learning: denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Today the term "Pure Land Buddhism" in the context of Japanese Religion commonly refers to the particular pure land inhabited by the Buddha called Amida. But in fact all buddhas and advanced bodhisattvas "purify" their physical
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The promised land
The Scotsman
; Success has come late for 59-year-old author Alan Spence, but his true tale of a young Scot's extraordinary impact on 19th-century Japan is earning him worldwide recognition ALAN Spence was still in his teens when he first started to think about reincarnation. A quiet, reflective boy, he would
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Guiding souls to a
New Straits Times
; New Straits Times 12-11-2005 Guiding souls to a Edition: New Sunday Times THE sonorous drone of a handbell struck at intervals with a small rod accompanies the chants of "Namo Amitabha Buddha" by a group of Buddhist volunteers dressed in black robes. They are at a wake. "There are many who die and
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Acceptance of the other as a similarly valid path and awareness of one's self-culpability: a deepening realization of my religious identity through dialogue.(INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST-CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL ENCOUNTER)
Buddhist-Christian Studies
; As the title of my paper indicates, two features of my identity have become more vivid as the result of my participation in the International Buddhist-Christian Theological Encounter (IBCTE) sessions. The first of the two stemmed from my rude awakening that not everyone involved with our sessions
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Buddhism in the Sung.(Review)
China Review International
; Peter N. Gregory and Daniel A. Getz, Jr., editors. Buddhism in the Sung. Kuroda Institute: Studies in East Asian Buddhism 13. Honolulu: Kuroda Institute/University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. 646 Pp. Hardcover $47.00, ISBN 0-8248-2155-6. This is volume 13 of the Kuroda Institute's excellent Studies in
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