Galen Amstutz
Biographic Data
| ID | 329714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Galen Amstutz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Galen |
| FAMILY NAME | Amstutz |
| SIGNATURE | AMSTUTZ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University1737 Cambridge StreetCambridge, MA 02138, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Karma, Punishment, and Doing Shin Buddhist Studies
Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan
Pure Land was one of the main fields of mythopoesis and discourse among the Asian Buddhist traditions, and in Japan of central cultural importance from the Heian period right up to the present. However, its range, inconsistency, variability, and complexity have tended to be misevaluated. The pieces reproduced in this set, organized both chronologically and thematically, have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity of what evolved…
Global Communication versus Ethno-Chauvinism
Globalization intensifies the range, intensity, and diversity of interactions among world societies, but along with phenomena of hybridization, glocalization, or creolization it is just as likely to produce counter-reactive phenomena of resistance or conservative radicalization. In the case of the major Japanese Buddhist tradition of Shin Buddhism, the interactive possibilities that could have been theoretically imagined for its modern encounter …
Buddhismus, Geschlechterverhältnis Und Diskriminierung
Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture – By Elisabetta Porcu
Letters of the Nun Eshinni
Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan, James C. Dobbins (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2004), 259 pp. $25.00 (Pb). ISBN 0824826671 (Hb); 0824828704 (Pb)
Interpreting Amida
The Politics of Independent Pure Land in China
In this country [Amitabha's Pure Land] there is no arrangement of royal regulations, ranks and titles. The Buddha is the ruler, and the three Vehicles are the [official] doctrine .... Whosoever in this country of Chin, in this era of sensual pleasures, serves the Buddha and correctly observes the commandments, who recites the Scripture of Amitabha, and who makes a vow to be born in that country [of SukhavatI] without ever abandoning his sincere i…
The Pure Land Tradition
The Politics of Pure Land Buddhism in India
Pure Land Buddhism achieved its primary influence in East Asia because it supplied a nonmonastic, autonomous source of religious authority and practice to middle elites in those cultural regions. In contrast Pure Land failed to achieve any success in India. The explanation for the marginalization of Indian Pure Land is probably sociopolitical: Pure Land teachings tended to bypass not only the authority of the Hindu brahmins, but even the authorit…
Shin Buddhism and Protestant Analogies with Christianity in the West
Was bedeutet die Bewegung? What does this movement mean?Bringt die Ost mir frohe Kunde? Goethe, cited from “West-östlicher Divan,” on title page of George B. Sansom, The Western World and Japan: A Study in the Interaction of European and Asiatic Cultures (New York: Knopf, 1968). Sansom, of course, was certain that the West did not need to learn anything from the East. Does the East bring me glad tidings?An analogy comparing Shin Buddhism—the larg…
Zenkoji and Its Icon
Missing Hongan-ji in Japanese studies
Shin Buddhism (Jodo Shinshð) is the largest of the traditional Japanese Buddhist institutions. In the late nineteenth century it included about a third of the entire Japanese population, and it possesses unique qualities. Shin, however, has not been given its due in studies of Japanese religious history. Some reasons for this relative neglect include modern nationalism, the biases of Buddhist studies, the limits of Western interest in new religio…
Understanding Shinran
Interpreting Amida
The Pure Land Tradition
The Politics of Pure Land Buddhism in India
Pure Land Buddhism achieved its primary influence in East Asia because it supplied a nonmonastic, autonomous source of religious authority and practice to middle elites in those cultural regions. In contrast Pure Land failed to achieve any success in India. The explanation for the marginalization of Indian Pure Land is probably sociopolitical: Pure Land teachings tended to bypass not only the authority of the Hindu brahmins, but even the authorit…
Shin Buddhism and Protestant Analogies with Christianity in the West
Was bedeutet die Bewegung? What does this movement mean?Bringt die Ost mir frohe Kunde? Goethe, cited from “West-östlicher Divan,” on title page of George B. Sansom, The Western World and Japan: A Study in the Interaction of European and Asiatic Cultures (New York: Knopf, 1968). Sansom, of course, was certain that the West did not need to learn anything from the East. Does the East bring me glad tidings?An analogy comparing Shin Buddhism—the larg…
Understanding Shinran
Missing Hongan-ji in Japanese studies
Shin Buddhism (Jodo Shinshð) is the largest of the traditional Japanese Buddhist institutions. In the late nineteenth century it included about a third of the entire Japanese population, and it possesses unique qualities. Shin, however, has not been given its due in studies of Japanese religious history. Some reasons for this relative neglect include modern nationalism, the biases of Buddhist studies, the limits of Western interest in new religio…
Understanding Shinran
Zenkoji and Its Icon
The Politics of Independent Pure Land in China
In this country [Amitabha's Pure Land] there is no arrangement of royal regulations, ranks and titles. The Buddha is the ruler, and the three Vehicles are the [official] doctrine .... Whosoever in this country of Chin, in this era of sensual pleasures, serves the Buddha and correctly observes the commandments, who recites the Scripture of Amitabha, and who makes a vow to be born in that country [of SukhavatI] without ever abandoning his sincere i…
The Pure Land Tradition
The Politics of Pure Land Buddhism in India
Pure Land Buddhism achieved its primary influence in East Asia because it supplied a nonmonastic, autonomous source of religious authority and practice to middle elites in those cultural regions. In contrast Pure Land failed to achieve any success in India. The explanation for the marginalization of Indian Pure Land is probably sociopolitical: Pure Land teachings tended to bypass not only the authority of the Hindu brahmins, but even the authorit…
Shin Buddhism and Protestant Analogies with Christianity in the West
Was bedeutet die Bewegung? What does this movement mean?Bringt die Ost mir frohe Kunde? Goethe, cited from “West-östlicher Divan,” on title page of George B. Sansom, The Western World and Japan: A Study in the Interaction of European and Asiatic Cultures (New York: Knopf, 1968). Sansom, of course, was certain that the West did not need to learn anything from the East. Does the East bring me glad tidings?An analogy comparing Shin Buddhism—the larg…
Interpreting Amida
Letters of the Nun Eshinni
Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan, James C. Dobbins (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2004), 259 pp. $25.00 (Pb). ISBN 0824826671 (Hb); 0824828704 (Pb)
Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture – By Elisabetta Porcu
Buddhismus, Geschlechterverhältnis Und Diskriminierung
Global Communication versus Ethno-Chauvinism
Globalization intensifies the range, intensity, and diversity of interactions among world societies, but along with phenomena of hybridization, glocalization, or creolization it is just as likely to produce counter-reactive phenomena of resistance or conservative radicalization. In the case of the major Japanese Buddhist tradition of Shin Buddhism, the interactive possibilities that could have been theoretically imagined for its modern encounter …
Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan
Pure Land was one of the main fields of mythopoesis and discourse among the Asian Buddhist traditions, and in Japan of central cultural importance from the Heian period right up to the present. However, its range, inconsistency, variability, and complexity have tended to be misevaluated. The pieces reproduced in this set, organized both chronologically and thematically, have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity of what evolved…
Karma, Punishment, and Doing Shin Buddhist Studies
History (11 works) · Buddhism (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Japanese History and Culture (8 works) · Theology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Pure land (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)