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Contemporary Issues in Buddhist Studies

With the support of the Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, the Institute of Buddhist Studies has initiated a new publication series, "Contemporary Issues in Buddhist Studies." The first volume in the series was published to commemorate the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Numata Endowment at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. The volume is entitled "Shin Buddhism: Historical, Textual, and Interpretive Studies." It brings together seventeen articles that had previously appeared in Pacific World, the journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, which was originally established by Rev. Yehan Numata when he was a student at UC Berkeley. The volume is available from the BCA Buddhist Bookstore.

Shin Buddhism: Historical, Textual, and Interpretive Studies

Contents

Historical Studies
   Pure Land Systematics in India: The Buddhabhūmi-sūtra and the Trikāya Doctrine
      John P. Keenan
   Avadāna-vāda and the Pure Land Faith
      Whalen Lai
   The Transformation of the Pure Land in the Development of Lay Buddhist Practice in China
      Kather K. Velasco
   Where Is the Pure Land? Controversy in Chinese Buddhism on the Nature of the Pure Land
      Kenneth K. Tanaka
   Activity of the Aya and Hata in the Domain of the Sacred
      Bruno Lewin
   Genshin's Essentials of Pure Land Rebirth and the Transmission of Pure Land Buddhism to Japan
      Allan A. Andrews    The Conception of the Japanese Kami in the Kamakura Era: Notes on the First Chapter of the Saksekishū
      Hartmut O. Rotermund
   The New Buddhism of Kamakura and the Doctrine of Innate Enlightenment
      Ruben L.F. Habito

Textual Studies
   Earliest Usage of "Dajing" (Daikyō) and "Wangshenglun" (Ōjōron) by a Non-Orthodox Pure Land Buddhist: Its Implication for Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
      Kenneth K. Tanaka
   Shinzei's Discourse on Practicing the Samādhi of Meditating on the Buddha
      Richard K. Payne
   Rennyo's Legacy: The Letters as Scripture
      Minor L. Rogers and Ann T. Rogers

Interpretive Studies
   The Brilliance of Emptiness: Tanluan as a Mystic of Light
      Roger J. Corless
   Honzon—Object of Worship in Shin Buddhism
      Jōryū Chiba
   Shin Buddhism Studies and Secularization
      Mitsuya Dake
   The Theme of Subjectivity in Kiyozawa Manshi's Seishinshugi
      Gilbert L. Johnston
   The Buddhist Churches of America: Challenges for Change in the Twenty-First Century
      Tetsuden Kashima

pp. xii + 397, includes bibliography and index