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Overview
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Nagapriya's book, The Promise of a Sacred World: Shinran's Teaching of Other Power, is an attempt to open out Shinran's religious perspective for a contemporary audience. It offers some close readings of Shinran's writings in order to highlight some of their main emphases and to show how his teachings relate to earlier developments, most especially the teachers he identified as his Pure Land lineage. Above all, it attempts to evoke the 13th C Japanese teacher Shinran's perspective on 'Other Power' as embodied in the figure of Amida Buddha and the Pure Land scriptures. It builds on existing work such as Ueda and Hirota's Shinran: An Introduction to this Thought.
The book is not written for an academic audience, but rather seeks to open pathways to the transformative awareness that Shinran names 'shinjin'. It is hoped that the book will stimulate greater interest in Shinran and the Pure Land perspective outside of their traditional contexts, and give new ways to think about non-secular contemporary Buddhism.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Nagapriya
- ISBN: 9781911407904
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.10 x 0.60
- Number Of Pages: 272
- Publication Year: 2022
Language:
English