Shinran (1173-1262) is the founder of the Jôdo Shinshû Pure Land Buddhist tradition in Japan during the Kamakura period. This movement once set in motion eventually became the largest Buddhist sect in Japan and spread to the West at the end of the nineteenth century. Renowned scholar of Shin Buddhism Alfred Bloom presents the life and spiritual legacy of Shinran Shonin the influential religious reformer and founder of Pure Land Buddhism the most popular school of Buddhism in Japan today. Bloom presents a wide selection of Shinran's essential writings on the key Shin Buddhist idea of true entrusting (shinjin) to the Other-Power of Amida Buddha through His Vow to save all sentient beings. THE ESSENTIAL TEACHINGS OF SHINRAN also includes a foreword by Shin Buddhist scholar Rueben Habito a detailed glossary of foreign terms and a select bibliography for further reading.
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Alfred Bloom, former professor at the University of Hawaii and Dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California, is the author of Shinran's Gospel of Pure Grace and editor of Living in Amida's Universal Vow. He lives in Kailua, HI.
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