Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm': A Translation and Study - Image 1

£71.79

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

Name: Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm': A Translation and Study
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Price: 71.74 GBP
Availability: InStock

Slavery & Emancipation

Price History & Forecast

Last 77 days • 77 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 77 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £72 (77 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £72 - £72

Price levels: 1 different prices over 77 days

Description

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 humans reside, and that the essay's attempts to reconcile Buddhism with modern science is tentative and incomplete. Jones reveals that the essay promotes visions of both paradises and utopias, and that Taixu supports his ideas with many lengthy sutra quotations. The book concludes with an examination of how Taixu's followers developed the idea of the Pure Land in the human realm into a more coherent and modernized ideal.

Product Specifications

Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1350140562
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Slavery & Emancipation
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 14 January 2021
Listed Since: 23 March 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

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

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice (Pure Land Buddhist Studies)

Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts

Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume II: Pure Land: 2

Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho: The Collection of Passages Expounding the True Teaching, Living, Faith, and Realizing of the Pure Land

The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation: Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China: 18 (Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism)

Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism: Visualizing Enlightenment at Baodingshan from the 12th to 21st Centuries

Columbia University Press - Buddhism and Medicine Anthology

The Lankavatara Sutra in Modern English Volume1: Featuring Three Foundational Chinese Translations and Two Key Commentaries

The Lankavatara Sutra in Modern English Volume2: Featuring Three Foundational Chinese Translations and Two Key Commentaries

The Lankavatara Sutra in Modern English Volume3: Featuring Three Foundational Chinese Translations and Two Key Commentaries

Cambria Press - The Administration of Buddhism in China

Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Global Asias)

A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection

Pure Land Buddhism in China: A Docturnal History Volume 1: Translation and Volume 2: Supplemental Essays and Appendices (Contemporary Issues in Buddhist Studies)

Genshin’s Ōjōyōshū and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan (Pure Land Buddhist Studies)

Perfect Awakening: An Edition and Translation of the Pr?s?dika and Pras?dan?ya S?tra (Dirghagama Studies)

Bàopǔzǐ nèipiān 抱朴子內篇 (Inner Chapters of Master Embracing Simplicity): An Annotated Translation of Gě Hóng's 葛洪 (283-343) Masterwork (Volume 1) (Daoist Translation Series)

Tibetan Sky-Gazing Meditation and the Pre-History of Great Perfection Buddhism: The Skullward Leap Technique and the Quest for Vitality

Bàopǔzǐ nèipiān 抱朴子內篇 (Inner Chapters of Master Embracing Simplicity): An Annotated Translation of Gě Hóng's 葛洪 (283-343) Masterwork (Volume 2) (Daoist Translation Series)

The Sublime Continuum and Its Explanatory Commentary: With the Sublime Continuum Supercommentary - Revised Edition (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences)

Modern Selfhood in Translation: A Study of Progressive Translation Practices in China (1890s–1920s) (New Frontiers in Translation Studies)

Routledge - The People and the Dao: Chinese Religions Study

Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan

The Yogācāra Philosophy of Vasubandhu: Featuring the Twenty Verses, Thirty Verses, and Paramārtha's Mahāyāna Treatise on Consciousness-Only