MASTER YINSHUN AND THE PURE LAND THOUGHT: A DOCTRINAL GAP BETWEEN INDIAN BUDDHISM AND CHINESE BUDDHI...

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" MASTER YINSHUN AND THE PURE LAND THOUGHT: A DOCTRINAL GAP BETWEEN INDIAN BUDDHISM AND CHINESE BUDDHISM "
Stefania Travagnin

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	811530
Doc. No	:	LA99204
Main Entry	:	Stefania Travagnin
Title & Author	:	MASTER YINSHUN AND THE PURE LAND THOUGHT: A DOCTRINAL GAP BETWEEN INDIAN BUDDHISM AND CHINESE BUDDHISM [Article]\ Stefania Travagnin
Title of Periodical	:	Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Date	:	2004
Volume/ Issue Number	:	57-3
Page No	:	271--328
Abstract	:	The Chinese scholar-monk Yinshun (1906—), who is conceived as the founder of the renjian fojiao which is spread in Taiwan, dedicated quite a large part of his literary production to the Pure Land doctrine. This paper is divided into three main parts. The first section is an introduction to Yinshun's works on Pure Land and includes the criticism that those writings received. The second part discusses the concepts of purity and pure land in Yinshun's writings. Finally, the third and main part includes monographies on the main Pure Land in Mahāyāna Buddhism (the Pure Lands of Amitābha, Akṣobhya, Maitreya and the Medicine Buddha), as concerned and analysed by Yinshun. This study aims to define Yinshun's philosophy through the analysis of his interpretation of the Pure Land doctrine, and provides a portrait of the Pure Land school in the contemporary Taiwan through questioning Yinshun's hermeneutics of Dharma. In addition, this work touches the issue of the relationship between tradition and innovation, by taking Yinshun and his Pure Land philosophy as case-study.