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Pure land, real world : modern Buddhism, Japanese leftists, and the utopian imagination /

For a thousand years, Japanese Buddhists cultivated vivid images of utopia in the form of the Western Paradise, but in the modern period, this utopianism became troublesome. Shinshu modernizers reinvented the Pure Land: some moulded it into something the nation-state could tolerate; others used it t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Series:Pure Land Buddhist studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The land in Pure Land
  • The modern tradition
  • Special Marxist, special Buddhist : Kawakami Hajime
  • Pure Land for the people : Miki Kiyoshi
  • Man without a hometown : Ienaga Saburō
  • Epilogue : "Let us read Shinran, young people!"