Honen the Buddhist Saint: Essential Writings and Official Biography (Spiritual Masters: East and West Series) (The Library of Perennial Philosophy) [Shonin]

xlvii, 141, [1] pp. Abridgement of translation by Harper Havelock Coates and Ryugaku Ishizuka, with a foreword by Clark Strand, and an introduction by Alfred Bloom. Honen Shonin (1133-1212 A.D.) founded the largest Buddhist sect in Japan (Pure Land, or Shin). "Amply illustrated, and with a new introduction by Alfred Bloom, this publication of Honen the Buddhist Saint provides for a new generation both a readable abridgement of the classic text first translated by Coates and Ishizuka, and a current update on this important Japanese Buddhist figure." - Paul Swanson, Director, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture