Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination
(Part of the Pure Land Buddhist Studies Series)
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For close to a thousand years Amida's Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of shared happiness circulating in the Japanese imagination. In the late nineteenth century, some Buddhist thinkers sought to reinterpret the Pure Land in ways that would allow it speak to modern Japan. Their efforts succeeded in ways they could not have predicted. During the war years, economist Kawakami Hajime, philosopher Miki...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824892445
ISBN13:9780824892449
Release Date:May 2022
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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