History, Buddhism 

pt. I. Gyonen and Kamakura Pure Land Buddhism -- 1. The legacy of Honen: Japanese Pure Land Buddhism in the Kamakura period -- 2. Forging an historical identity for Pure Land Buddhism: as Gyonen saw it -- 3. The life and thought of Gyonen: from precepts to Pure Land -- 4. Gyonen as Buddhist historian: scholarship as praxis -- 5. Textcritic information: a history of the Jodo homon genrusho -- pt. II. The Origins and Development of the Pure Land Teaching: Translation of the Jodo homon genrusho -- 1. Scripture -- 2. Propagation of the Pure Land teaching and lineage: India -- 3. China -- 4. Japan (up to Honen) -- 5. Kosai and the one nenbutsu -- 6. Ryukan and the many nenbutsu -- 7. Shoku and the seizan branch -- 8. Shoko and the chinzei branch, chosai, and others -- Colophon to the Bunka edition -- pt. III. Facsimile of the 1814 Xylograph of the Jodo homon genrusho -- App. A. Concordance to the Jodo homon genrusho facsimile -- App. B. Gyonen's Pure Land beliefs -- App. C. Extant works of Gyonen. 

xxi, 470 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm 

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