Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought

by James Mark Shields

Book Overview

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the relative calm world of Japanese Buddhist scholarship was thrown into chaos with the publication of several works by Buddhist scholars Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro, dedicated to the promotion of something they called Critical Buddhism (hihan bukkyo). In their quest to re-establish a "true" - rational, ethical and humanist - form of East Asian Buddhism, the Critical Buddhists undertook a radical deconstruction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409417980
• ISBN13: 9781409417989
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"