The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism A Study and Translation of Gyonen's Jodo Homon Genrusho

by Blum, Mark L.

• ISBN13: 9780195125245
• ISBN10: 019512524X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this book, Mark Blum offers a critical look at the thought and impact of the late 13th-century Buddhist historian Gyonen (1240-1321) and the emergent Pure Land school of Buddhism founded by Honen (1133-1212). Blum also provides a clear and fully annotated translation of Gyonen's Jodo homon genrusho , the first history of Pure Land Buddhism.

Author Biography

Mark L. Blum is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at the State University of New York, Albany.

Table of Contents

Conventions and Abbreviations	xvii
Part I: Gyonen and Kamakura Pure Land Buddhism	1	(142)
The Legacy of Honen: Japanese Pure Land Buddhism in the Kamakura Period	3	(18)
Issues in Kamakura Pure Land Thought	6	(3)
Expanding the Shan-tao Tradition: the Uniqueness of Nenbutsu	9	(5)
In Search of a Normative Practice: Recitation and Samabhi	14	(4)
In Gyonen's View	18	(3)
Forging an Historical Identity for Pure Land Buddhism: As Gyonen Saw It	21	(30)
A History of the Pure Land Teaching	22	(4)
The Disciples of Honen	26	(14)
Significant by Their Absence: Masters Missing from the Genrusho	40	(5)
The Genrusho Perspective	45	(6)
The Life and Thought of Gyonen: From Precepts to Pure Land	51	(18)
Sources	52	(3)
Biographical Summary	55	(14)
Gyonen as Buddhist Historian: Scholarship as Praxis	69	(64)
Gyonen's Historical Model	72	(3)
Reassertion of a Traditional View of the Precepts	75	(2)
Mappo and the Perception of Decline	77	(10)
The Sangoku Construct: Buddhism Defined as Indian, Chinese, and Japanese	87	(6)
Kakuken's Sangoku dentoki as Prototype for Gyonen's Theoretical Framework	93	(4)
Comparing Gyonen with Kakuken	97	(4)
Sectarian Ambiguity and Institutional Legitimation	101	(17)
Back to Nara	118	(5)
Conclusion	123	(10)
Textcritic Information: A History of the Jodo homon genrusho	133	(10)
Xylograph Editions of the Genrusho	135	(3)
Modern Editions	138	(1)
Commentaries	138	(2)
Translator's Note	140	(3)
Part II: The Origins and Development of the Pure Land Teaching: Translation of the Jodo homon genrusho	143	(154)
Preface	145	(2)
Scripture	147	(18)
Propagation of the Pure Land Teaching and Lineage: India	165	(16)
China	181	(16)
Japan (up to Honen)	197	(14)
Kosai and the One Nenbutsu	211	(22)
Ryukan and the Many Nenbutsu	233	(12)
Shoku and the Seizan Branch	245	(26)
Shoko and the Chinzei Branch, Chosai, and Others	271	(26)
Colophon to the Bunka Edition	295	(2)
Part III: Facsimile of the 1814 Xylograph of the Jodo homon genrusho	297	(72)
Appendix A: Concordance to the Jodo homon genrusho Facsimile	369	(2)
Appendix B: Gyonen's Pure Land Beliefs	371	(18)
Appendix C: Extant Works of Gyonen	389	(6)
Bibliography of Primary Sources	395	(24)
Bibliography of Secondary Sources	419	(24)
Select Glossary	443	(10)
Index	453