Interpreting Amida: History and Orientalism in the Study of Pure Land Buddhism (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies)
By Galen Amstutz.
Description
Amstutz clearly demonstrates how the sources of Western and Eastern misunderstanding of Pure Land Buddhism have been engendered, both consciously and unconsciously, by orientalist assumptions current in scholarly understanding of the history and practice of Pure Land Buddhism. Before academic studies in Pure Land Buddhism can advance much further, all of us in the field must confront the issues of orientalist assumptions and biaseslurking in our scholarship. The author has pointed these out within their historical contexts in a powerful way, and perhaps this is the most important contributi...
ISBN(s)
0791433102, 9780791433102
