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Primary Literature
- Genshin, 1973. The Teachings Essential for Rebirth : A Study
of Genshin’s Ōjōyōshū, Allan A.
Andrews, Tokyo: Sophia University. Partial translation and outline of
the seminal work of the Tendai Pure Land master. (Scholar)
- Gómez, Luis O., trans., 1996. Land of Bliss : The
Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless Light : Sanskrit and Chinese
Versions of the Sukhāvatīvyūha Sutras, Honolulu:
University of Hawai‘i Press. Major scriptures of the Pure Land
tradition, including discussions and charts reflecting hermeneutical
practices of Japanese masters. (Scholar)
- Hirota, Dennis, trans., 1989. Plain Words on the Pure Land
Way: Sayings of the Wandering Monks of Medieval Japan, Kyoto:
Ryukoku University. A translation of Ichigon hōdan. (Scholar)
- –––, trans., 1990. “On Attaining the
Settled Mind: A Translation of Anjinketsujosho,”
Eastern Buddhist, 23(2): 106–121 and 24(1) (1991):
81–96. Anonymous philosophically oriented medieval tract. (Scholar)
- Hōnen, 1998. Hōnen’s Senchakushū:
Passages on the Selection of the Nembutsu in the Original Vow
(Senchaku hongan nembutsu shū), trans. and ed.
Senchakushū English Translation Project, Honolulu: University of
Hawai‘i Press.
- –––, 2011. The Promise of Amida Buddha:
Hōnen’s Path to Bliss, trans. Jōji Atone and
Yūko Hayashi, Boston: Wisdom Publications. Japanese writings and
recorded words of Hōnen. (Scholar)
- Ippen, 1989. No Abode: The Record of Ippen, trans. Dennis
Hirota, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Reflects the Pure
Land thought of Hōnen’s disciple Shōkū, as well
as esoteric and folk religious practices. (Scholar)
- Shinran, 1973. The Kyōgyōshinshō: The
Collection of passages Expounding the True Teaching, Living, Faith,
and Realizing of the Pure Land, trans. Daisetsu Teitarō
Suzuki, Kyoto: Shinshū Ōtaniha. Volume 2 includes major
essays by Suzuki on Shin Buddhism. (Scholar)
- –––, 1982. Tannishō: A Primer,
trans. Dennis Hirota, Kyoto: Ryukoku University. Phrase-by-phrase
translation with romanization and original text. (Scholar)
- –––, 1997 [CWS]. The Collected Works of
Shinran, Dennis Hirota et al., trans., Kyoto: Jōdo
Shinshū Hongwanji-ha, 2 vols. Volume 1: Shinran’s doctrinal
writings. Volume 2: introductions, glossaries, and reading aids.
- Shinran, 2012. Shinran’s
Kyōgyōshinshō: The Collection of Passages
Expounding the True Teaching, Living, Faith, and Realizing of the Pure
Land, translated by Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki, Oxford: Oxford
University Press. (Scholar)
Secondary Literature
- Barth, K., 1961. Church Dogmatics, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark; I/2 reprinted in On Religion: The Revelation of God as the Sublimation of Religion, Garrett Green (trans.), London: T. & T. Clark, 2006. (Scholar)
- Bloom, Alfred (ed.), 2004. Living in Amida’s Universal
Vow: Essays in Shin Buddhism, Bloomington: World Wisdom.
(Includes essays by Kiyozawa Manshi, Soga Ryōjin, D. T. Suzuki,
Takeuchi Yoshinori, Ueda Yoshifumi and others.) (Scholar)
- –––, (ed.), 2007. The Essential Shinran: A
Buddhist Path of True Entrusting, Bloomington, Indiana: World
Wisdom. (Scholar)
- Blum, Mark L. and Robert F. Rhodes (eds.), 2011. Cultivating
Spirituality: A Modern Shin Buddhist Anthology, Albany: State
University of New York Press. (Includes essays by Kiyozawa Manshi,
Soga Ryōjin, and other figures associated with Higashi
Honganji.) (Scholar)
- Blum, Mark L and Michael Conway (eds.), 2022. Adding Flesh to
Bones: Kiyozawa Manshi’s Seishinshugi in Modern Japanese Buddhist
Thought, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
- Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie, 2017. Pure Land, Real World:
Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination,
Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
- Gordon, M. L., 1882. “The Doctrine of Amida is
Unauthentic,” The Chrysanthemum: A Monthly Magazine for
Japan and the Far East 3 (March 1882): 104–110. (Scholar)
- –––, 1883. “The Religious Influence of
Buddhism as an Obstacle to the Reception of the Gospel in
Japan,” in Proceedings of the General Conference of the
Protestant Missionaries of Japan (Osaka, Japan, April, 1983),
Yokohama: R. Meiklejohn and Company. (Scholar)
- –––, 1893. An American Missionary in
Japan, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin. (Scholar)
- Heisig, James W., Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo (eds.),
2011. “The Pure Land Tradition,” in Japanese
Philosophy: A Sourcebook,$$ Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i
Press, 235–85. (Scholar)
- Hirota, Dennis, 1993. “Shinran’s View of Language: A Buddhist Hermeneutics of Faith,” Eastern Buddhist, 26(1): 50–93 and 26(2): 91–130. (Scholar)
- –––, 2000a, “Images of Reality in the Shin
Buddhist Path: A Hermeneutical Approach,” in Hirota 2000b. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2000b. Toward a Contemporary
Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism, Albany, N. Y.: State
University of New York Press. Articles by John B. Cobb, Jr., Dennis
Hirota, Gordon D. Kaufman, Musashi Tachikawa, and John Yokota. (Scholar)
- –––, 2006. Asura’s Harp: Engagement
with Language as Buddhist Path, Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag
Winter. (Scholar)
- –––, 2008. “Shinran and Heidegger on
Truth,” in Paul Numrich (ed.), Boundaries of Knowledge in
Buddhism, Christianity, and the Natural Sciences, Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, pp. 59–79. (Scholar)
- –––, 2010. “Shinran in the Light of Heidegger: Rethinking the Concept of Shinjin,” in James Heisig and Rein Raud (eds.), Classical Japanese Philosophy, Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 7, Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 207–231. (Scholar)
- –––, 2011. “The Awareness of the Natural World in Shinjin,” Buddhist-Christian Studies 31, 189–200. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019. “How to Read Shinran,” in Gereon Kopf (ed.), The Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 415–449. (Scholar)
- –––, 2020. “Philosophical Dimensions of
Shinran’s Pure Land Buddhist Path,” in Bret W. Davis (ed.), The
Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, New York: Oxford
University Press, 159–180. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022. “On Religious Engagement: Shinran and
Heidegger’s Paul,” in Carol Anderson and Thomas Cattoi (eds.), The
Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies, London:
Routledge, 428–441. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022. “The Nembutsu as Language: Shinran’s
Conception of Practice,” Buddhist-Christian Studies 42. (Scholar)
- Josephson, Jason Ānanda, 2012. The Invention of Religion
in Japan, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
- Kasulis, Thomas P., 1984. “Buddhist Existentialism,”
Eastern Buddhist, 17(2): 134–141. (Scholar)
- –––, 2001. “Symposium: Shin Buddhist
Ethics in Our Postmodern Age ofMappō,” Eastern
Buddhist, 33(1): 16–37. (Scholar)
- –––, 2018. Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History (Chapter 5: Shinran: Naming What Comes Naturally), Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
- Ketelaar, James Edward, 1990. Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji
Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press. (Scholar)
- Machida, Soho, 1999. Renegade Monk: Hōnen and Japanese
Pure Land Buddhism, Ioannis Mentzas (trans. and ed.), Berkeley:
University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Mattice, Sarah, 2022. “Shinran as Global Philosopher,” Religions, 13(2), 105. (Scholar)
- Morrell, Robert E., 1987. Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority
Report, Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press. (Scholar)
- Nishida, Kitaro, 1986. “The Logic of Topos and the Religious
Worldview,” trans. Michiko Yusa, Eastern Buddhist,
19(2): 1–29. (Scholar)
- –––, 1995. “Nishida’s Gutoku
Shinran,” trans. Dennis Hirota, Eastern Buddhist,
28(2): 231–244. (Scholar)
- Nishitani, Keiji, 1978. “The Problem of Time in
Shinran,” trans. Dennis Hirota, Eastern Buddhist,
11(1): 13–26. (Scholar)
- Payne, Richard K. and Kenneth K. Tanaka (eds.), 2004.
Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of
Amitābha, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
(Includes an essay on the Pure Land practice of the Shingon priest
Kakuban.) (Scholar)
- Pye, Michael (ed.), 2011. Beyond Meditation: Expressions of
Japanese Shin Buddhist Spirituality. London: Equinox
Publishing. (Scholar)
- –––, (ed.), 2012. Listening to Shin
Buddhism: Starting Points of Modern Dialogue. London:
Equinox Publishing. (Scholar)
- Soga, Ryōjin, 1965. “Dharmakara Bodhisattva,”
Eastern Buddhist, 1(1): 64–78. (Scholar)
- Suzuki, D. T., 1970, Shin Buddhism, New York: Harper and Row. (Scholar)
- –––, 1957. Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
- –––, 2015. Selected Works of D.T.
Suzuki (Volume II: Pure Land), James C. Dobbins (ed.), Berkeley:
University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Tanabe, George J., 1992. Myōe the Dreamkeeper: Fantasy
and Knowledge in Early Kamakura Buddhism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press. (Scholar)
- Tanabe, Hajime, 1986. Philosophy as Metanoetics, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Tanaka, Kenneth K. and Eisho Nasu (eds.), 1998. Engaged Pure
Land Buddhism: The Challenges of Jōdo-Shinshū in the
Contemporary World, Berkeley, CA: WisdomOcean Publications. (Scholar)
- Takeuchi, Yoshinori, 1980. “Shinran and Contemporary
Thought,” trans. Jan van Bragt, Eastern Buddhist,
13(2): 26–45. (Scholar)
- –––, 1982. “The Meaning of Other Power in
the Buddhist Way of Salvation,” Eastern Buddhist,
15(2): 10–27. (Scholar)
- –––, 1983. The Heart of Buddhism : In Search
of the Timeless Spirit of Primitive Buddhism, New York:
Crossroad. Includes essays treating Shinran. (Scholar)
- –––, 1996. “The Fundamental Problem of
Shinran’s Thought (Part I),” Eastern Buddhist,
29(2): 153–158. (Scholar)
- Thelle, Notto R., 1987. Buddhism and Christianity in Japan:
From Conflict to Dialogue, 1854–1899, Honolulu: University of
Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
- Ueda, Yoshifumi, 1984. “The Mahayana Structure of
Shinran’s Thought,” trans. Dennis Hirota, in Eastern
Buddhist, 17(1): 57–78 and 17(2): 30–54. (Scholar)
- –––, 1986. “Freedom and Necessity in
Shinran’s Concept of Karma,” trans. Dennis Hirota,
Eastern Buddhist, 19(1): 76–100. (Scholar)
- Ueda, Yoshifumi and Dennis Hirota, 1989. Shinran: An
Introduction to His Thought, Kyoto: Hongwanji International
Center. (Includes background chapters on Mahayana and general Pure
Land Buddhist thought and a selection of key passages from
Shinran’s writings with original texts.) (Scholar)
- Unno Taitetsu and James W. Heisig (eds.), 1990. The
Religious Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime (Part I: Shin Buddhism).
Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press. (Scholar)
- van Bragt, Jan, 2017. A Soga Ryōjin Reader, Wamae Muriuki (ed.), Michael Conway (Introduction), Nagoya, Japan: Chisokudō. (Scholar)
- van der Veere, Henny, 2000. A Study into the Thought of
Kōgyō Daishi Kakuban: With a Translation of His Gorin kuji
myō himitsushaku. Leiden: Hotei Publishing. (Twelfth century
Shingon formulation of Pure Land themes. Includes a translation of
Amida hishaku.) (Scholar)
- Watt, Paul B., 2016. Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism:
Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition, Honolulu:
University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)