Pacific World Journal Back Issues
Third Series Number 2
Fall 2000
Special Issue on T’an-luan and the Development of Shin Buddhist Thought
Editorial Preface: Special Issue on T’an-luan [ download ]
On T’an-luan and the Development of Shin Buddhist Thought:
- The Enduring Significance of T’an-luan by Roger Corless [ download ]
- Shinran’s Indebtedness to T’an-luan, Shojun Bando [ download ]
- The Theoretical Structure of “Birth in the Pure Land”: Based on the Meaning of T’an-luan’s “Birth through Causal Conditions” by Ryusei Takeda [ download ]
- Shinran’s View of Other Power: On “the Profound Significance of Other’s Benefiting and Benefiting Others” by Jitsuen Kakehashi [ download ]
- T’an-luan’s Theory of Two Kinds of Dharma-body as Found in Shinran’s Wago Writings by Yukio Yamada [ download ]
- The Teaching of Hearing-the-Name in the Larger Sukhavatvyuha Sutra by Risho Ota [ download ]
- Hisao Inagaki’s T’an-luan’s Commentary on Vasubandhu’s Discourse on the Pure Land: A Study and Translation (Kyoto: Nagata Bunshodo, 1998): A Review and Comment by David Matsumoto [download ]
- Pure Land Buddhism in China: A Doctrinal History, Chapter Seven: T’an-luan by Shinko Mochizuki (Leo M. Pruden, Translation) [ download ]
- Kogatsuin Jinrei’s “Introduction to The Ronchu Lectures” by W. S. Yokoyama, Introduction and Translation [ download ]
- Pure Land’s Multilineal Ancestry: A New Metaphor for Understanding the Evolution of “Living Religions” by Russell Kirkland [ download ]
Articles And Translations:
- Toward a Pro-Active Engaged Shin Buddhism: A Reconsideration of the Teaching of the Two Truths (shinzoku-nitai) by Michio Tokunaga and Alfred Bloom [ download ]
- Shan-tao’s Exposition of the Method of Contemplation on Amida Buddha, Part 2 translated by Hisao Inagaki [ download ]
Book Reviews: [ [download complete book reviews ]
Critical Reflections on Buddhism and Buddhist Studies
- Jamie Hubbard & Paul L. Swanson, Edited, Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm over Critical Buddhist by John M. Thompson
- James W. Heisig and John C. Maraldo, Edited, Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism by Taline Goorjian
- Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Edited, Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism Under Colonialism by Geoff E. Foy
- “On Method,” special issue of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, vol. 18, no. 2 (Winter 1995) by Richard K. Payne
- Sallie B. King and Paul O. Ingram, Edited, The Sound of Liberating Truth: Buddhist Christian Dialogues in Honor of Frederick J. Streng Kristin by Johnston Sutton
- Zara Houshmand, Robert B. Livingston and B. Alan Wallace, Edited, Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism by Richard K. Payne
- The Collected Works of Shinran by Eisho Nasu
Notes and News: [ [download complete news ]
- IBS and IBS Center for Contemporary Shin Buddhist Studies Programs and Activities: September 1995 – November 2000
- BDK English Tripitaka Series: A Progress Report