Approaching the Land of Bliss : religious praxis in the cult of Amitābha / edited by Richard K. Payne and Kenneth K. Tanaka.

"A Kuroda Institute book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pure land Buddhism in Tibet? from Sukhā vatī to the field of great bliss / Matthew T. Kapstein -- Shengchang's pure conduct society and the Chinese pure land patriarchate / Daniel Getz -- By the power of one's last Nenbutsu: deathbed practices in early medieval Japan / Jacqueline I. Stone -- Amida's secret life: Kakuban's Amida hishaku / James H. Sanford -- "Show me the place where my mother is!" Chūjōhime, preaching, and relics in late medieval and early modern Japan / Hank Glassman -- "Just behave as you like; prohibitions and impurities are not a problem": radical Amida cults and popular religiosity in premodern Japan / Fabio Rambelli -- Ungo Kiyō's Ōjōyōka and Rinzai Zen orthodoxy / Richard M. Jaffe -- From generalized goal to Tantric subordination: Sukhāvatī in the Indic Buddhist traditions of Nepal / Todd T. Lewis -- Buddha one: a one-day Buddha-recitation retreat in contemporary Taiwan / Charles B. Jones.