{"id":979,"date":"2007-10-31T13:02:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T05:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/pure-land-buddhism-and-amida-buddha-a-historical-and-philological-analysis\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T13:02:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T05:02:02","slug":"pure-land-buddhism-and-amida-buddha-a-historical-and-philological-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/pure-land-buddhism-and-amida-buddha-a-historical-and-philological-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Land Buddhism and Amida Buddha: a historical and philological analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sino-Platonic Papers<\/em> has rereleased for free Life and Light, the Infinite: A Historical and Philological Analysis of the Amida Cult<\/a> (2.2 MB PDF), by Soho Machida. <\/p>\n

Here’s a bit of borrowed biographical information about the author: <\/p>\n

Soho Machida spent twenty years as a Zen monk at Daitokuji monastery, Kyoto, before moving to the United States, where he received a master’s degree in theological studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at Princeton University and the National University of Singapore, and is now a professor at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He has written extensively on religion and ethics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here’s the table of contents of the work.<\/p>\n

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  1. Two Names of Amida Buddha<\/li>\n
  2. Amida, Amita, or Amrta?<\/li>\n
  3. Amida Buddha and Indian Mythology<\/li>\n
  4. Which came first, Amitayus or Amitabha?<\/li>\n
  5. The Idea of Luminosity in Mahayana Thought<\/li>\n
  6. The Encounter of Buddhism and Zoroastrianism<\/li>\n
  7. Luminosity and the Cult of Mithra<\/li>\n
  8. Parallel Features with Iranian Religion<\/li>\n
  9. The Old Religion of the Indo-Iranians<\/li>\n
  10. Conclusion<\/li>\n
  11. Endnotes<\/li>\n
  12. Bibliography<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    This was originally published in December 1988 as issue no. 9 of Sino-Platonic Papers<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sino-Platonic Papers has rereleased for free Life and Light, the Infinite: A Historical and Philological Analysis of the Amida Cult (2.2 MB PDF), by Soho Machida. Here’s a bit of borrowed biographical information about the author: Soho Machida spent twenty … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,4,134,264,6,28,95,138,128],"tags":[266,865,265],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-china","category-india","category-iran","category-japan","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-philology","category-sino-platonic-papers","tag-buddha","tag-buddhism","tag-pure-land-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}