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Living in Amida's Universal Vow: Essays on Shin Buddhism (Perennial Philosophy Series) |
Author: Alfred Bloom
Published: 2004-06-25 |
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 Namu Amida Butsu
The reader from North Carolina makes a good case for reading book jackets: in this case the subtitle "Essays on Shin Buddhism." While Amida is not tangential to these essays, the subject matter is eternal life in the Infinite Light of Amida Buddha. This is a very different matter than approaching Amitabha/Amitayus as a deity or a member of a pantheon of buddhas, which, perhaps, is what the reader was after.
LIVING IN AMIDA'S UNIVERSAL VOW is not an introductory text on either Buddhism in general or Shin Buddhism in particular. It assumes a basic familiarity with the subject of Shin; more, it presumes that one is already engaged with the Universal Vow and is seeking to deepen and broaden one's appreciation of its scope.
Some of the essays are easier reading than others; some are more personal and intimate than others. Shin is a subtle practice, easy on the one hand, harder than you might imagine on the other. It has not received the attention paid to Zen, Vipassana or Tibetan Buddhism, therefore it has not had to lively up its presentation for American consumption. Perhaps because of that, Shin's evolution in the West has been more organic, more private, and more painful.
By presenting this book, Dr. Bloom has opened Shin studies to a wider readership, one which may be prepared to accept Shin on its own terms as a practice of faith, different from Zen or Vipassana or Vajrayana, but perhaps more suited for those of us acutely aware of our passion-bound finitude.
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