Author: Reischauer, August Karl
Title: Studies in Japanese Buddhism
Description: New York, Macmillan, 1925. orig. cloth. 22x15cm, xviii,361 pp. Frontispiece. Slight binding corner bumps. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Buddhist Origins: Gautama's Environment; The Buddha's Life & Teaching; Success of the New Religion; Development of Primitive Buddhism Into Mahayana Buddhism: Buddhism of Asoka's Day; Rise of Mahayana Buddhism; Spread of Buddhism through China; Developments of Buddhism in Japan: Introduction into Japan; Rise of the Six Nara Sects; Kyoto Sects; the Sects of the Great Awakening; Political Strife & Religious Decline; Religion in the Tokugawa Period; Buddhism in the Meiji Era; The Buddhist Canon as Known in Japan; Outline of the Main Doctrines of Japanese Buddhism: Theory of Knowledge; Buddhist World Views; The Pluralistic World of Experience; The God-Idea of Japanese Buddhism; Man & His Condition; Salvation; Things to Come; Buddhist Ethics: General Aspects;The Vices & Virtues; The Place of Buddhism in Japanese Life: Past, Present & Future: The Influences in the Past; The Place of Buddhism in Present-Day Japan; The Place of Buddhism in the Future.

Keywords: History of Religion, Japan, Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist Theology, Religious Ethics, East Asia, , ,