Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism - Watt, Paul B.

Introduces the thought and selected writings of Yasuda Rijin, a modern Shin Buddhist thinker affiliated with the Otani branch of Shin Buddhism. In the writings and lectures presented here, Yasuda draws on not only classical Shin and Mahayana Buddhist sources, but also the thought of Nishida Kitar?, and modern Western philosophers such as Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Buber.