The religious heritage of Japan
Subtitle: foundations for cross-cultural understanding in a religiously plural world
By: edited by John Ross Carter
Publisher: Book East
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780964704046
Subjects: Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The meeting of two cultures / Minoru Tada; title: Kyoto : the city that represents Japan / George Hlawatsch; title: Some themes in the Christian experience in Japan / Håkan Eilert; title: An introduction to Shinto / Naofusa Hirai; title: What is Shinto? / Masahiko Asoya; title: The concept of Kami / Kanji Ueda; title: Foundations of Mt. Hiei / Hisao Inagaki; title: On the Lotus Sūtra / Michio Shinozaki; title: On Zen / Keido Fukushima Roshi; title: The relation of Buddhist thought to Zazen / Gudo Mishijima Roshi; title: The significance of the Nembutsu / Shojun Bando; title: Shinran's view of the three Pure Land Sūtras : from Amida worship to the true and real religion / Nobuo Nomura; title: The dialectic of Shinjin / Michio Tokunaga; title: Other power and social ethics : the bifurcation of Shinran's teaching / Michio Tokunaga; title: The role of women in the Buddhist tradition in Japan / Kyoko Motomochi Nakamura; title: Reflections on the notion of "the inward quest" in the Japanese Buddhist experience / Dennis Hirota; title: Religiousness and the way of tea / Dennis Hirota; title: The first round-table discussion; title: The second round-table discussion.