Beyond Meditation

Michael Pye was Professor of Religionswissenschaft at Marburg University in Germany until his formal retirement in 2004, and since then he has been a visiting professor at Otani University in Kyoto. For many years he was the General Secretary and then the President (1995-2000) of the International Association for the History of Religions. His writings have ranged widely over the methodology of the study of religions, studies in Buddhist thought and many aspects of contemporary Japanese religion. Major publications include Skilful Means, A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism (London 1978; 2nd ed. London 2003) and Emerging from Meditation (Translations from Tominaga Nakamoto) (London and Honolulu 1990).

• Table of Contents List of Illustrations Michael Pye Preface with Acknowledgements Michael Pye A Note on The Eastern Buddhist Michael Pye Conventions on Names, Titles and Scripts Michael Pye General Introduction Michael Pye Part I Masters of the Nenbutsu Hōnen Shōnin (1133–1212) and the Jōdo Ideal Beatrice Lane Suzuki A Study in the Pure Land Doctrine of Shōkū (1177–1247) Sugihira Shizutoshi The Teaching of Ippen Shōnin (1239–1289) Sugihira Shizutoshi The Religion of Shinran Shōnin (1173–1262) Sasaki Gesshō Rennyo Shōnin (1415–1499): a Great Teacher of Shin Buddhism Sugihira Shizutoshi Part II Some Foundations in Mahāyāna Buddhism Mahāyāna Buddhism  Murakami Senshō The Buddha as Preacher  Akanuma Chizen The Triple Body of the Buddha Akanuma Chizen Philosophical Foundations of Shin Buddhism Sasaki Gesshō The Unfolding of the Nenbutsu Teaching Sugihira Shizutoshi Part III Themes in Shin Buddhism What is the True Sect of the Pure  Land?  Sasaki Gesshō Amida as Saviour of the Soul Yamabe Shūgaku The Way to the Land of Bliss Yamabe  Shūgaku The Enlightened Mind of the Buddha and the Shin Teaching  Sasaki Gesshō The Buddha and  Shinran  Yamabe Shūgako The Teaching of Shin Buddhism and the Religious Life  Sasaki Gesshō Shin Buddhism  as the Religion of Hearing  Yokogawa Kenshō My Socialism  Takagi Kenmyō The Shinran Revival of 1922 Mino Kōgetsu The Shinran Shōnin Celebration  Beatrice Lane Suzuki In Memory of Sasaki Gesshō  Michael Pye  The Saintly Figures The Saintly Figures  Michael Pye Synoptic List of Text Titles Synoptic List of Text Titles Michael Pye Character List for Historical Persons Character List for Historical Persons Michael Pye Full Details of Original Publication Full Details of Original Publication Michael Pye General Index