Taixu's 'on the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm': A Translation and Study

by Charles B. Jones and Charles Brewer Jones

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350140562
• ISBN13: 9781350140561
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"