Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism: Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition

by Paul B. Watt

The True Pure Land sect of Japanese Buddhism, or Shin Buddhism, grew out of the teachings of Shinran (1173-1262), a Tendai-trained monk who came to doubt the efficacy of that tradition in what he viewed as a degenerate age. Shinran held that even those unable to fulfill the requirements of the traditional Buddhist path could attain enlightenment through the experience of shinjin, "the entrusting mind"--an expression of the profound realization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824856325
• ISBN13: 9780824856328
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 196 Pages