Contents: The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development
	India
	Pure Land Buddhism in India by Fujita Kotatsu translated by Taitetsu Unno	1
	Rebirth in Amitabha's Sukhavati by John C. Huntington	43
	China
	T'an-Iuan: The First Systematizer of Pure Land Buddhism by Roger J. Corless	107
	The Formation of the Pure Land Movement in China: Tao-ch'o and Shan-tao by David Chappell	139
	Legends of Births and the Pure Land Tradition in China by Whalen Lai	173
	The Five Contemplative Gates of Vasubandhu's Rebirth Treatise as a Ritualized Visualization Practice by Richard K. Payne	233
	Japan
	An Overview of Japanese Pure Land by Akihisa Shigematsu translated by Michael Solomon	267
	Shinran: The New Path to Buddhahood by Taitetsu Unno	313
	Honganji under Rennyo: The Development of Shinshu in Medieval Japan by Michael Solomon	399
	Rennyo's Ofumi and the Shinshu in Pure Land Tradition by Minor L. Rogers	429
	Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Early Shinshu: Kakushi Nembutsu and Kakure Nembutsu by Chiba Joryu translated by Whalen Lai, Richard Shek and Eisho Nasu	463
	Character List	497
	Index	525