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Tibetan Pure Land Buddhism
By: Lowell Cook
Tibetan Pure Land Buddhism


 
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Author: Lowell Cook
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ISBN: 9789937733106
Publication Date: 2019


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TIBETAN Pure Land BUDDHISM examines self-power and other-power in a Tibetan Buddhist context. The tension between self power and other-power concerns the process of rebirth in the pure land Sukhavati; that is, whether rebirth is achieved through one s own volition (self-power) or, conversely, through an external force such as the supernatural powers of Amitibha (other-power). Self-power and other-power are discussed at length in Japanese Buddhist Studies where they are called jiriki and tariki, respectively, and even has some distant parallels in Christian theology (namely, works and grace). Nevertheless, these two terms appear to go unmentioned in Tibetan Buddhist literature with one exception. The only Tibetan author to explicitly discuss self-power and other-power is the ecumenical scholar-practitioner Ju mi pham (1846-1912) in his work, Sun- like Instructions of a Sage: A Clarification of Faith which Purifies the Pure Land, the Land of Bliss (Bde ba can gyi zhing sbyong ba i dad pa gsal bar byed pa drang srong lung gi nyi ma). This fourteen-folio treatise affirms that faith and aspiration (dad dun) are the primary cause for rebirth in Sukhavati and defends this position in a series of polemics against detractors of other-power.

Tibetan Pure Land Buddhism, Lowell Cook, Vajra Books, 2019, Paperback,
94 pages, $12.00.

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