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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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Auteur principal: Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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!"