Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Director's Foreword VII
4. Preface IX
5. Acknowledgments XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Passages That Relate How the Dhyana Master Tao-ch'o, Setting Up the Two Gateways, the Holy Path and the Pure Land, Discarded the Holy Path and Took Refuge in the Pure Land Teaching 56
8. 2. Passages That Relate How Master Shan-tao Set Up the Two Kinds of Practice, the "Right" and the "Miscellaneous," Rejecting the Miscellaneous and Taking Refuge in the Right 63
9. 3. Passages Concerning the Tathagata Amida's Original Vow, Which Promises Birth Not for Other Practices But for the Nembutsu Alone 72
10. 4. Passages Relating How All Three Classes of People Can Be Born through the Nembutsu 82
11. 5. Passages on the Benefit of the Nembutsu 89
12. 6 . Passages Relating That the Nembutsu Alone Will Remain [in the World] after the Ten Thousand Years of the Age of the Final Dharma, When All of the Other Practices Have Disappeared 92
13. 7. Passages Relating That the Light of Amida Does Not Illuminate Those Who Engage in the Other Practices, but Embraces Only Those Who Practice the Nembutsu 96
14. 8. Passages That Show That Those Who Practice the Nembutsu Should Certainly Possess the Three Kinds of Mind 99
15. 9. Passages Relating How Practitioners Should Practice the Four Cultivations 113
16. 10. Passages [Teaching That When] the Buddha Amida Comes to Welcome [the Nembutsu Practitioners] in His Transformation Body; He Does Not Praise Good Practices Such As Hearing the Names of the Sutras, but Praises Only the Nembutsu 118
17. 11. Passages That Praise the Nembutsu in Contrast to the Many Miscellaneous Practices 120
18. 12. Passages That Relate That [in the Kuan wu-liangshou chingj Sakyamuni Did Not Entrust to Ananda the Various Contemplative and Noncontemplative Practices, but Entrusted to Him the Nembutsu Alone 126
19. 13. Passages Attesting That the Nembutsu Plants Many Good Roots, While the Miscellaneous Practices Plant But Few 137
20. 14. Passages Attesting That the Many Buddhas of the Six Directions, As Numerous As the Sands of the Ganges, Do Not Bear Witness to the Other Practices, But Only to the Nembutsu 139
21. 15. Passages Relating How All the Buddhas of the Six Directions Protect the Nembutsu Practitioner 142
22. 16. Passages Relating How the Tathagata Sakyamuni Kindly Entrusted the Name of [A]mida to Sariputra and Other Disciples 145
23. Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Glossary 154
24. Notes 155
25. Glossary 167
26. Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources 217
27. Japanese Proper Names 231
28. Chinese Proper Names 235
29. Select Bibliography 239
30. Contributors 267
31. Index 269