Description
Shin, or Pure Land, Buddhism is the most commonly practicedform of Buddhism in Japan. Yet in the West its popularity is overshadowed bythe more famous Zen Buddhism. In his new work, renowned author and scholar ofthe Shin tradition, Alfred Bloom, has collected key passages on Pure Landteaching from among the scriptures and the leading monks of the school.Arranged by topic for easy reference, and including a foreword by Kenneth K.Tanaka, it is sure to be an instant classic.
Chapter
I. Foundational Scriptures
1. The Larger Pure Land Sutra
2. The Shorter Pure Land Sutra
3. The Contemplation Sutra
B. Praise of Sakyamuni in the Pure Land Sutras
1. The Larger Pure Land Sutra
2. The Shorter Pure Land Sutra
a. Praise of Sakyamuni's Virtue by all the Buddhas
C. Dharmakara Bodhisattva's Enlightenment as Amida Buddha in The Larger Pure Land Sutra
1. Renunciation: Dharmakara Bodhisattva Renounces His Throne; Takes Refuge under Buddha Lokeshvararaja
2. Dharmakara Bodhisattva Resolves to Become Buddha
3. Dharmakara Bodhisattva's Forty-Eight Vows
4. Summary of Amida's Vows (Juseige-Verses on Weighty Vows and Sanseige-Verses on Three Vows) from The Larger Pure Land Sutra
5. Fulfillment Text of Dharmakara Bodhisattva's Eighteenth Vow
6. Dharmakara Practices the Bodhisattva Path
a. Dharmakara Bodhisattva's Pure Practice
7. Dharmakara Bodhisattva Attains Buddhahood
8. The Pure Land Established by Dharmakara Bodhisattva/Amida Buddha
10. Amida Buddha's Lifespan
11. Praise of Amida Buddha: The Larger Pure Land Sutra
12. True Disciple of the Buddha
13. Description of the Pure Land
a. The Larger Pure Land Sutra
b. The Shorter Amida Sutra
14. Birth in the Pure Land
a. The Larger Pure Land Sutra
b. The Shorter Pure Land Sutra
c. The Contemplation Sutra
d. The Contemplation Sutra—Levels of Birth
i. Birth in the Highest Grade
ii. Birth in the Lowest Grade
D. The Human Condition: The Larger Pure Land Sutra
1. The Human Condition: The Lowest Grade
2. Passions and Their Fruits
5. Encountering the Buddha-Dharma
E. Drama of the Human Condition: The Contemplation Sutra
1. Prince Ajatasatru's Evil
2. Spiritual Emancipation in The Contemplation Sutra
a. Queen Vaidehi: Visualization and Meditation
b. Queen Vaidehi's Aspiration for the Pure Land
3. The Contemplation Sutra and the Path to the Pure Land
a. Visualizing the Pure Land
b. The Thirteen Contemplations
d. Response to Buddha's Teaching
e. Benefits of Response to Buddha's Teaching
F. Miscellaneous Sutra Sources
3. The Samadhi of All Buddhas' Presence Sutra
5. The Vows of Medicine Master Buddha Sutra
6. The Bodhisattva Precepts Sutra
II. Teachings of the Pure Land Tradition
1. The Reason for the Pure Land Teaching: Last Age in the Decline of the Dharma
b. Stages in the Decline of Dharma
2. The Nature of Pure Land Teaching
3. Correspondence of the Times and Beings
B. Amida Buddha, Bodhisattvas, and Other Buddhas
C. Amida Buddha's Primal Vows
1. The Thirty-Fifth Vow and Women
2. Eighteenth Vow Exclusion Clause
F. Birth in the Pure Land
G. Awakening of True Entrusting
1. Encountering the Buddha-Dharma
3. True Entrusting: The Three Minds
c. Trust in Ordinary Life and the Last Moment of Life
4. Two Types of Deep Faith
5. Spiritual Status of the Disciple and True Disciple of the Buddha
6. Dedication: Mode of Practice
The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition
：A Reader in Pure Land Teaching
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