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Renegade Monk Honen and Japanese Pure Land Buddhism
Author: Soho Machida

The Pure Land sect of Japanese Buddhism is one of the strongest Buddhist sects in Japan, with three and a half million followers. In this book, Soho Machida provides the first detailed, objective account in English of the life and thought of its founder, Honenbo Genku (1133-1212), known as Honen. Opening with the destruction and chaos that bel... more »eaguered Kyoto during Honen's lifetime, Soho Machida explores Honen's social context to discover the roots of his thought and the source of his popularity. The Old Buddhist regime had a stranglehold on peasants, he shows, by concocting images of vindictive spirits, hell, and an apocalyptic collapse of the law in these chaotic times. Machida asserts that when Honen countered such negative, menacing images by focusing his imagination on the Pure Land and actually affirming death, he became not only a radical thinker but also the leader of a revolutionary social movement--a medieval Japanese "liberation theology." Clearly argued and informed by contemporary Western theory, this book will become the definitive source on Honen's life and thought for decades to come. "Soho Machida's original, provocative study of Honen secures his place in Japanese intellectual history; and his bold advocacy of Pure Land practice forms a watershed in Japanese Buddhism, dividing the old and new, hierarchical and egalitarian, elitist and popular faith." --Taitetsu Unno "Machida has thrusted Honen to his deserved place at the center stage of Pure Land Buddhist development. We are drawn closer to Honen as a person and a spiritual genius who not only established Pure Land as an independent tradition but also impacted the overall Japanese Buddhist ethos of his time. The West`s perception of Pure Land Buddhism has been forever transformed by this superb work." --Kenneth K. Tanaka, Musashino Women`s University, Tokyo "An original and highly stimulating approach. Honen, the founder of the Pure Land sect, has been greatly underestimated and neglected in modern studies of Japanese Buddhism. Notable for making connections with Christian liberation theology and for establishing the social significance of the Pure Land movement, this book will make excellent reading in courses on world religion, Japanese religion, and religion and society." --Alfred Bloom, author of Shinran's Gospel of Pure Grace

ISBN-13: 9780520211797
ISBN-10: 0520211790
Publication Date: 4/1/1999
Pages: 203
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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Biographies & Memoirs >> Community & Culture >> Japanese
Biographies & Memoirs >> Leaders & Notable People >> Religious
History >> Asia >> Japan
Religion & Spirituality >> Buddhism >> General

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