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Alfred Bloom
Books by Alfred Bloom
The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition
A Reader in Pure Land Teaching
Edited by Alfred Bloom / Foreword by Kenneth K. Tanaka
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 selec...
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.