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  • The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition

    A Reader in Pure Land Teaching

    Edited by Alfred Bloom ...
    This book is an anthology of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching. Extending from the foundational texts and first interpreters in the 4th century, to Rennyo in the15th century, Professor Bloom’s selections trace the development of Shin Buddhist teaching from monastic visualization practices to the widely popular path to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Living In Amida's Universal Vow

    Essays on Shin Buddhism

    by Alfred Bloom ...
    This is the first comprehensive collection of essays on Shin Buddhism by many of the most important Shin scholars and religious authorities of the last one hundred years. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Essential Shinran

    A Buddhist Path of True Entrusting

    Edited by Alfred Bloom ...
    Renowned scholar Alfred Bloom presents the life and teachings of Shinran Shonin, the founder of Shin (or Pure Land) Buddhism, the most populist form of Buddhism in Japan, drawing extensively on the writings of this influential Japanese religious reformer. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition

    A Reader in Pure Land Teaching

    Edited by Alfred Bloom ...
    This second volume of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching focuses on religious practice. Extending from the foundational texts and first interpreters in the 4th century, to Rennyo in the 15th century, Professor Bloom’s selections trace the development of Shin Buddhist teaching from monastic visualization practices to the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Linguistic Shaping of Thought

    A Study in the Impact of Language on Thinking in China and the West

    by A. H. Bloom, Alfred H. Bloom ...
    First published in 1981. Using his fourteen years of interaction with the Chinese language and its speakers the author has noted certain important differences between the Chinese mode of speaking and thinking and that of speakers of English. This study looks at the impact of these differences looking at how they increase the sensitivity to what Chinese speakers mean; how they heighten awareness of ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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