Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination

by Melissa Anne-Marie Curley

Book Overview

For close to a thousand years Amida's Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of shared happiness circulating in the Japanese imagination. In the late nineteenth century, some Buddhist thinkers sought to reinterpret the Pure Land in ways that would allow it speak to modern Japan. Their efforts succeeded in ways they could not have predicted. During the war years, economist Kawakami Hajime, philosopher Miki...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824892445
• ISBN13: 9780824892449
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"