The Other Buddhism Amida Comes West

by Brazier, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9781846940521
• ISBN10: 1846940524
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-11
• Publisher: Mantra Books

Summary

The Pureland schools are the largest Buddhist denominations in Japan, and yet this approach to Buddhism is hardly known in the West. Pureland centres on our relationship with Amida Buddha, the embodiment of measureless love, light and life. It offers a fresh view of spirituality, recognizing us in our mundane lives, whilst lifting us into relationship with the eternal. As ordinary people, we cannot fathom our own depths nor can we know the immensity of the universe. We can but stand in awe and reach out to what we intuitively know to be beyond the small orbit of our lives. Pureland is a path of simplicity and beauty, poetry and nature. It is the path of faith.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
A Bitter Sweet World	p. 10
Snakes, Dragons and Fathomless Depths	p. 30
Dependence and Gratitude	p. 55
Jiriki and Tariki	p. 75
A Relational Psychology	p. 101
Lack and Longing	p. 126
Faith and the Engagement with Other	p. 147
The Gate of Contrition	p. 174
Patacara and Kisagotami: Grief, Loss and the Discovery of Faith	p. 198
Encountering Other: Life before Death	p. 217
Nembutsu in a Grieving World	p. 238
Dancing in the Light	p. 261
Glossary	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 286
Index	p. 290
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