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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... Read more
Published: 2012
Pages: 323
eBook: 9781908049162
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 take off in earnest. These debates attracted not only Zen voices but also thinkers from the Shin Buddhist tradition. This book brings together a wide range of classic writings from the 1950s to the 1970s which have significantly influenced subsequent Buddhist-Christian dialogue.
Michael Pye is Professor (ret.) at Marburg University and Guest Researcher at Otani University in Kyoto. His writings have ranged widely over the methodology of the study of religions, studies in Buddhist thought and many aspects of contemporary Japanese religion. His major publications include Skilful Means, A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism and Emerging from Meditation .
Michael Pye is Professor (ret.) at Marburg University and Guest Researcher at Otani University in Kyoto. His writings have ranged widely over the methodology of the study of religions, studies in Buddhist thought and many aspects of contemporary Japanese religion. His major publications include Skilful Means, A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism and Emerging from Meditation .
| Cover | Cover | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | vii | ||
| List of Illustrations | ix | ||
| Preface with Acknowledgements | xi | ||
| Conventions on Names, Titles and Scripts | xiii | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Part I | 13 | ||
| The Buddhist Doctrine of Vicarious Suffering | 15 | ||
| Mahāyāna Buddhism and Japanese Culture | 27 | ||
| The Idea and the Man (A Response to Yamabe Shūgaku) | 33 | ||
| A Rejoinder to Mrs. Rhys Davids’ Comment | 37 | ||
| Editorial of 1934 | 40 | ||
| Editorial of May 1949 | 42 | ||
| Part II | 45 | ||
| Shin Religion as I Believe it | 47 | ||
| The Meaning of Salvation in the Doctrine of Pure Land Buddhism | 61 | ||
| Goodness and Naturalness | 75 | ||
| Part III | 85 | ||
| The Concept of Grace in Paul, Shinran and Luther | 87 | ||
| Nembutsu as Remembrance | 107 | ||
| Shinran’s Way in Modern Society | 123 | ||
| Part IV | 137 | ||
| Freedom and Necessity in Shinran’s Concept of Karma | 139 | ||
| The Concept of the Pure Land in the Teaching of Nāgārjuna | 161 | ||
| The Mahāyāna Structure of Shinran’s Thought1 | 173 | ||
| Shinran and Contemporary Thought | 213 | ||
| Part V | 231 | ||
| Shinran’s World: A Dialogue of Shin Buddhism and Zen Buddhism | 233 | ||
| Synoptic List of Text Titles | 277 | ||
| Character List for Historical Persons | 287 | ||
| Full Details of Original Publication | 291 | ||
| A Note on The Eastern Buddhist | 293 | ||
| Index | 295 |