Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Pure Land Buddhism in Tibet? From Sukhävatï to the Field of Great Bliss 16
6. 2. Shengchang’s Pure Conduct Society and the Chinese Pure Land Patriarchate 52
7. 3. By the Power of One’s Last Nenbutsu Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan 77
8. 4. Amida’s Secret Life Kakuban’s Amida hishaku 120
9. 5. “Show Me the Place Where My Mother Is!” Chüjöhime, Preaching, and Relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan 139
10. 6. “Just Behave as You Like; Prohibitions and Impurities Are Not a Problem” Radical Amida Cults and Popular Religiosity in Premodern Japan 169
11. 7. Ungo Kiyö’s Öjöyöka and Rinzai Zen Orthodoxy 202
12. 8. From Generalized Goal to Tantric Subordination Sukhävatï in the Indic Buddhist Traditions of Nepal 236
13. 9. Buddha One A One-Day Buddha-Recitation Retreat in Contemporary Taiwan 264
14. Character Glossary 281
15. Contributors 289
16. Index 291