Mark L Blum
Biographic Data
| ID | 5901461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark L Blum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark L |
| FAMILY NAME | Blum |
| SIGNATURE | BLUM M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albany State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologically from the tenth century to the present, bring to light both continuity and change in death practices over time. They also explore the interrelated issues of how Buddhist death rites have addressed individual concerns about the afterlife while also filling social and institutional needs…
Biography as Scripture
Records of individuals who achieved rebirth in the pure land of Amitābha Buddha began as a genre of hagiography in eighth-century China and began appearing in Japan in the late tenth century.Thereafter these ōjōden were produced repeatedly throughout Japanese history in greater numbers than in China, and came to function as a form of prooftext for the establishment of the Pure Land school.Focusing on an apocryphal Indian ōjōden created in the lat…
Renegade Monk
Stand By Your Founder
Pure Land Buddhist texts and practices have been part of the fabric of Japanese Buddhism since the Nara period, but they grew to have significantly greater impact in the Kamakura period when the first inde pendent schools of Pure Land Buddhism were founded by Honen and Shinran. This article looks at the evolution of ritual funeral practices car ried out within the Pure Land school of Shinshu, particularly the Honganji establishment, and discusses…
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Stand By Your Founder
Pure Land Buddhist texts and practices have been part of the fabric of Japanese Buddhism since the Nara period, but they grew to have significantly greater impact in the Kamakura period when the first inde pendent schools of Pure Land Buddhism were founded by Honen and Shinran. This article looks at the evolution of ritual funeral practices car ried out within the Pure Land school of Shinshu, particularly the Honganji establishment, and discusses…
Renegade Monk
Biography as Scripture
Records of individuals who achieved rebirth in the pure land of Amitābha Buddha began as a genre of hagiography in eighth-century China and began appearing in Japan in the late tenth century.Thereafter these ōjōden were produced repeatedly throughout Japanese history in greater numbers than in China, and came to function as a form of prooftext for the establishment of the Pure Land school.Focusing on an apocryphal Indian ōjōden created in the lat…
Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologically from the tenth century to the present, bring to light both continuity and change in death practices over time. They also explore the interrelated issues of how Buddhist death rites have addressed individual concerns about the afterlife while also filling social and institutional needs…
Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Buddhism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Afterlife (1 work) · Art (1 work)