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Young Man Shinran: A Reappraisal of Shinranâ (Tm)S Life
Contributor(s): Takahatake, Takamichi (Author)
ISBN: 0889201692     ISBN-13: 9780889201699
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
OUR PRICE:   $31.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 1987
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Religious
- Philosophy | Buddhist
- Religion | Buddhism - History
Dewey: B
LCCN: 87183445
Series: Sr Supplements
Physical Information: 242 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Buddhist
 
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The Japanese Pure Land master Shinran (1173-1262) was a product of his age. His angst in the period of the decay of the Dharma, his subsequent search for spiritual liberation, and his ultimate discovery of the path of the nembutsu could not have occurred isolated from the social temper of his time, any more than his religious thought could have developed beyond the fabric of traditional Japanese Buddhist teachings and practices.

This study concentrates on the relationship between Shinran's experiences in the first half of his life and his historical and social environment. Both the boldness and subtlety of his ideas begin to emerge in this examination, moving beyond the hagiographical limitations often characteristic of research into the Shin tradition.

Numerous Shinran studies have been bound by the limitations of either purely historical or religious-philosophical analysis. But these two approaches have rarely been combined, and since Shinran's early life and his cultural environment together constitute not only the basis but also the matrix of his mature thought and practice, such a combination reveals both the power of his ideas and the cultural factors that stimulated their development.


Contributor Bio(s): Takahatake, Takamichi: -

The Reverend Takamichi Takahatake currently teaches in Takaoka, Japan. Until 1985 he was Reverend at the Montréal Buddhist Church.