The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition: A Reader in Pure Land Teaching VOLUME 1 - Alfred Bloom

This second volume of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching focuses on religious practice. Pure Land or Shin Buddhism is the most popular form of Buddhism in Japan. Yet in the West it has been overshadowed by the more famous Zen Buddhism. The author collects key passages on Pure Land religious practice from among the scriptures and the leading monks of the school during the 4th-15th centuries CE.