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"In Japan's turbulent fifteenth century, the gifted proselytizer Rennyo rebuilt his relatively small following, the Shin Buddhist Honganji lineage, into a formidable nationwide organization. Drawing together new research from both Japanese and Western scholars and representing a range of methodological perspectives, this collection of essays sheds valuable light on Rennyo's place in the social, political, and religious transformations of his day and the meaning of his legacy for contemporary Japanese Buddhism. This volume will benefit scholars and students of Japanese religion as well as others interested in Shin Buddhist history and thought or in issues in the formation and legitimation of religious traditions."--Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University, author ofOriginal Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism
"The history of Shin Buddhism, Japan's massive Buddhist school, can be divided into two halves: first, when it was a peripheral and inconsequential Buddhist movement, and second, when it emerged as a religious institution of unparalleled success and influence. The dividing point between the two was Rennyo, the leader of its head temple, Honganji, in the late fifteen century. This volume is a selection of recent and top-tier scholarship on Rennyo. It elucidates his many achievements and the lasting effects he has had on Shin Buddhism and Japanese religion as a whole. Many aspects of Rennyo's life, activities, and religious thought are explored in a depth previously unavailable in English. In the end, Rennyo emerges as a kaleidoscopic figure through which we can see better the character of Shin Buddhism and the development of Japan's religious traditions."--James C. Dobbins author of Jodo Shinshu: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan
"In Japan's turbulent fifteenth century, the gifted proselytizer Rennyo rebuilt his relatively small following, the Shin Buddhist Honganji lineage, into a formidable nationwide organization. Drawing together new research from both Japanese and Western scholars and representing a range of methodological perspectives, this collection of essays sheds valuable light on Rennyo's place in the social, political, and religious transformations of his day and the meaning of his legacy for contemporary Japanese Buddhism. This volume will benefit scholars and students of Japanese religion as well as others interested in Shin Buddhist history and thought or in issues in the formation and legitimation of religious traditions." --Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University, author of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism
"The history of Shin Buddhism, Japan's massive Buddhist school, can be divided into two halves: first, when it was a peripheral and inconsequential Buddhist movement, and second, when it emerged as a religious institution of unparalleled success and influence. The dividing point between the two was Rennyo, the leader of its head temple, Honganji, in the late fifteen century. This volume is a selection of recent and top-tier scholarship on Rennyo. It elucidates his many achievements and the lasting effects he has had on Shin Buddhism and Japanese religion as a whole. Many aspects of Rennyo's life, activities, and religious thought are explored in a depth previously unavailable in English. In the end, Rennyo emerges as a kaleidoscopic figure through which we can see better the character of Shin Buddhism and the development of Japan's religious traditions."--James C. Dobbins, author of Jodo Shinshu: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan
"The history of Shin Buddhism, Japan's massive Buddhist school, can be divided into two halves: first, when it was a peripheral and inconsequential Buddhist movement, and second, when it emerged as a religious institution of unparalleled success and influence. The dividing point between the two was Rennyo, the leader of its head temple, Honganji, in the late fifteen century. This volume is a selection of recent and top-tier scholarship on Rennyo. It elucidates his many achievements and the lasting effects he has had on Shin Buddhism and Japanese religion as a whole. Many aspects of Rennyo's life, activities, and religious thought are explored in a depth previously unavailable in English. In the end, Rennyo emerges as a kaleidoscopic figure through which we can see better the character of Shin Buddhism and the development of Japan's religious traditions."--James C. Dobbins author of Jodo Shinshu: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan
"In Japan's turbulent fifteenth century, the gifted proselytizer Rennyo rebuilt his relatively small following, the Shin Buddhist Honganji lineage, into a formidable nationwide organization. Drawing together new research from both Japanese and Western scholars and representing a range of methodological perspectives, this collection of essays sheds valuable light on Rennyo's place in the social, political, and religious transformations of his day and the meaning of his legacy for contemporary Japanese Buddhism. This volume will benefit scholars and students of Japanese religion as well as others interested in Shin Buddhist history and thought or in issues in the formation and legitimation of religious traditions." --Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University, author of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism
"The history of Shin Buddhism, Japan's massive Buddhist school, can be divided into two halves: first, when it was a peripheral and inconsequential Buddhist movement, and second, when it emerged as a religious institution of unparalleled success and influence. The dividing point between the two was Rennyo, the leader of its head temple, Honganji, in the late fifteen century. This volume is a selection of recent and top-tier scholarship on Rennyo. It elucidates his many achievements and the lasting effects he has had on Shin Buddhism and Japanese religion as a whole. Many aspects of Rennyo's life, activities, and religious thought are explored in a depth previously unavailable in English. In the end, Rennyo emerges as a kaleidoscopic figure through which we can see better the character of Shin Buddhism and the development of Japan's religious traditions."--James C. Dobbins, author of Jodo Shinshu: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan
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Rennyo is undeniably one of the most influential persons in the history of Japanese religion and yet his thought remains somewhat enigmatic from the standpoint of what is considered orthodox Shinshu doctrine today. This book, which collects ten unpublished essays by both Japanese and non-Japanese scholars, will be the first to confront many of the major questions surrounding the phenomenal growth of Honganji under Rennyo's leadership, such as the source of his charisma, the soteriological implications of his thought against the background of other movements in Pure Land Buddhism, and the relationship between his ideas and the growth of his church. The volume is intended as an important first step in expanding the field of Rennyo studies outside Japan, and to provide significant stimulus to the fields of Japanese religion, Japanese social history, comparative religion, and sociology of religion.
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