A Thinking Person's Guide to Shin Buddhism
Book Details
Author(s)Daiei Kaneko
PublisherShinshu Center of America
ISBN / ASINB0106SAMF8
ISBN-13978B0106SAMF1
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
Introducing our Founder With roots that go back to twelfth century Japan, Shin Buddhism grew out of the spiritual search of Shinran, 1173–1263. Shinran was a brilliant student of Buddhism yet he could not find any way to save himself. He was fortunate to meet with an equally brilliant teacher named HÅnen who showed him the way. Through faith a person who realizes they have no especially redeeming side to them can still find a way to peace and happiness within. Even though Shinran experienced long periods of hardships he accepted them as part of his destiny to spread Buddhism among the ordinary people. Even today his philosophy of religious faith has the power to move people caught in the turmoil of the modern world. Anyone interested in learning more about his life and thought will surely find something for them in the books in our series.
Introducing our series Shin Buddhism was informally introduced to the West at the 1893 Chicago World’s Parliament of Religion when a few copies of a small book were passed out to the audience. The book was called Skeleton of a Philosophy of Religion and it was written by Manshi Kiyozawa, 1863–1903. Though he had yet to make a name for himself, Kiyozawa is now regarded as one of the leading religious philosophers of the Meiji period. Kiyozawa was also an ordained Buddhist priest of our denomination, the Shinshū Ōtani-ha, popularly known as the Higashi Honganji, and later became the founding president of their new Shin Buddhist college in Tokyo, called Shinshū Daigaku. The present Shinshu Center of America (SCA) series takes up his spirit of introducing Shin Buddhism to the West.
Introducing the present volume This essay A Thinking Person’s Guide to Shin Buddhism, originally titled ShinshÅ« no YÅshi, was written by Daiei Kaneko, one of the prominent Shin Buddhist thinkers, who laid the foundations of modern Shin Buddhist studies. With a broad background in Mahayana Buddhism and philosophy, Kaneko gives a concise but deep outline of Shin Buddhism in this essay.
Our dream Our immediate goal is to introduce Shin Buddhist thought to the Western mind by this digital book series. Our long-range goal is to create the conditions to nurture our own native Western forms of Shin Buddhism.
Introducing our series Shin Buddhism was informally introduced to the West at the 1893 Chicago World’s Parliament of Religion when a few copies of a small book were passed out to the audience. The book was called Skeleton of a Philosophy of Religion and it was written by Manshi Kiyozawa, 1863–1903. Though he had yet to make a name for himself, Kiyozawa is now regarded as one of the leading religious philosophers of the Meiji period. Kiyozawa was also an ordained Buddhist priest of our denomination, the Shinshū Ōtani-ha, popularly known as the Higashi Honganji, and later became the founding president of their new Shin Buddhist college in Tokyo, called Shinshū Daigaku. The present Shinshu Center of America (SCA) series takes up his spirit of introducing Shin Buddhism to the West.
Introducing the present volume This essay A Thinking Person’s Guide to Shin Buddhism, originally titled ShinshÅ« no YÅshi, was written by Daiei Kaneko, one of the prominent Shin Buddhist thinkers, who laid the foundations of modern Shin Buddhist studies. With a broad background in Mahayana Buddhism and philosophy, Kaneko gives a concise but deep outline of Shin Buddhism in this essay.
Our dream Our immediate goal is to introduce Shin Buddhist thought to the Western mind by this digital book series. Our long-range goal is to create the conditions to nurture our own native Western forms of Shin Buddhism.
