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Author:

Jones, Charles Brewer, 1957- author.

Title:

Chinese Pure Land Buddhism : understanding a tradition of practice / Charles B. Jones.

Publisher:

University of Hawaii Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xv, 205 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Pure Land Buddhism--China.
Pure Land Buddhism.
China.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- What is the Chinese Pure Land tradition? -- The development of the concept of the Pure Land -- Self-power and other-power in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism -- Ethics and precepts in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism -- Defending Pure Land in late imperial China -- Methods of nianfo in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism -- Lushan Huiyuan: the evolution of the first Pure Land patriarch -- Conclusions.

Series:

Pure Land Buddhist studies

ISBN:

0824879716
9780824879716

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1082553941

LCCN:

2019001148

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)