Taixu’s “On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm”

A Translation and Study

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19914465
AutoresCharles B Jones (autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Data de publicação2021-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoTaixu’s “On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm” (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350140585
OpenAlexW4232105283
Open LibraryOL29507182M
ISBN9781350140585
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

In this book, Charles B. Jones provides the first English language translation of one of the most important texts of modern Chinese Buddhism: monk-reformer Taixu’s ‘On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm’. The essay, written in 1926 as part of Taixu’s attempt to revive Chinese Buddhism with a Humanistic Buddhist approach, incorporates Western thought into a reconstruction of the idea of the ‘Pure Land in the human realm’. In his commentary on the text, Jones argues that it has been widely misunderstood and mischaracterized. Jones demonstrates that, besides laying out the very modern idea of the Pure Land in the human realm as a slogan for Buddhist engagement with the problems of the modern world, the essay does not, as commonly assumed, discourage practices leading to rebirth in the Pure Land. He also shows that the ‘human realm’ can mean anywhere in Buddhist cosmology that

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