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- Cultivating Spirituality: A Modern Shin Buddhist Anthology
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Four Shin Buddhist thinkers reflect on their tradition’s encounter with modernity. Cultivating Spirituality is a seminal anthology of Shin Buddhist thought, one that reflects this tradition’s encounter with modernity. Shin (or Jodo Shinshu) is a popular form of Pure Land Buddhism, the most widely practiced form of Buddhism in Japan, but is only now becoming well known in the West. The lives of the four thinkers included in the book spanned the years 1863–1982, from the Meiji opening to the West to Japan’s establishment as an industrialized democracy and world economic power. Kiyozawa Manshi, Soga Ryojin, Kaneko Daiei, and Yasuda Rjin, all associated with Kyoto’s Otani University, dealt with the spiritual concerns of a society undergoing great change. Their philosophical orientation known as “Seishinshugi” (“cultivating spirituality”) provides a set of principles that prioritized personal, subjective experience as the basis for religious understanding.
In addition to providing access to work generally unavailable in English, this volume also includes both a contextualizing introduction and introductions to each figure included.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright page
- pp. iii-iv
- Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xii
- Kiyozawa Manshi
- pp. 55-98
- Chapter 5: The Nature of My Faith
- pp. 93-98
- Soga Ryojin
- pp. 99-156
- Chapter 6: Soga Ryōjin: Life and Thought
- pp. 101-106
- Chapter 9: Lectures on the Tannishō
- pp. 139-156
- Kaneko Daiei
- pp. 157-213
- Chapter 10: Kaneko Daiei: Life and Thought
- pp. 159-171
- Yasuda Rijin
- pp. 215-265
- Chapter 14: The Mirror of Nothingness
- pp. 233-237
- Chapter 15: A Name but Not a Name Alone
- pp. 239-265
- Combined Glossary
- pp. 267-277
- Bibliography
- pp. 279-297
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438439839
MARC Record
OCLC
775362055
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No