Michael Pye
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Buddhist Temples of Kyoto and Kamakura
Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an extremely well informed and sensitive expositor of Mahayana Buddhism. As the American wife of the influential Zen Buddhist Suzuki Daisetsu, she lived in Japan for many years, becoming very familiar with the leading temples of various Buddhist schools-especiall...
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Exploring Shinto
Michael Pye, Gaetan Rappo, Marcus Teeuwen, Yeonjoo Park, Vladlena Fedianiya, Iwasawa Tomoko, D. Max Moerman, Dunja Jelesijevic, Robert Rhodes, Markus Ruesch, Katja Triplett, Shishino Fumio, Yoshimura Masanori, Avery Morrow
Shinto permeates the religious landscape of Japan and is a major key to the understanding of Japanese culture and society. But what is it? If ideological shortcuts are avoided there is no simple answer. Yet this book will guide students and general readers through many aspects of Shinto both today a...
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Interactions with Japanese Buddhism
In the early twentieth century, The Eastern Buddhist journal pioneered the presentation of Buddhism to the west and encouraged the west's engagement in interpretation. This interactive process increased dramatically in the post-war period, when dialogue between Buddhist and Christian thought began t...
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Listening to Shin Buddhism
In the early twentieth century, The Eastern Buddhist Journal pioneered the presentation of Buddhism to the west and encouraged the west's engagement in interpretation. This interactive process increased dramatically in the postwar period, when dialogue between Buddhist and Christian thought began to...
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Beyond Meditation
In the wide range of Buddhist meditation and spirituality a very special place is held by the practice of calling on the name of Amitabha, or in Japanese Amida Buddha, using the simplest of formulas, the nenbutsu. Japanese masters such as Honen, Shinran and others made this the core of a profound sp...