Buddhist Traditions: 3 Classic Books on Buddhism Across Asia
Pure Land Faith, Chinese Customs, and the Living Traditions of Buddhism Across AsiaBy Frederick Starr, Shinran, Lewis Hodous
Length6h 44m
About this audiobook
Buddhist Traditions: 3 Classic Books on Buddhism Across Asia gathers three historically distinct encounters with Buddhist thought, practice, and transmission. Moving between devotional reflection, doctrinal exposition, and interpretive scholarship, the volume illuminates Buddhism not as a monolithic system but as a network of regional traditions shaped by changing languages, institutions, and communities. Its juxtaposition of inward religious inquiry with descriptive cultural study makes the collection especially valuable within the literary history of Buddhist modernity and cross-cultural representation. The contributors bring markedly different positions to this shared subject: one writes from within the formative currents of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism, while the others approach Asian religious life through the lenses of travel, observation, and early Anglophone scholarship. Together, their works register the movement of Buddhist ideas across East and Southeast Asia and across the boundaries between practitioner testimony and Western interpretation. The anthology therefore invites readers to consider both Buddhism's internal diversity and the historical conditions through which it became legible to international audiences. Recommended for students, general readers, and scholars of religion alike, this volume offers an unusual opportunity to compare voices, genres, and assumptions within a single compact library. Its breadth encourages careful reading, supplying both an educational introduction to Buddhist traditions and a productive dialogue about how those traditions have been narrated, preserved, and understood.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Literary Classics
Length6 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Buddhism and Buddhists in China
2Buddhism and Buddhists in China
3PREFACE
4BUDDHISM AND THE FAMILY
5IX
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6Korean Buddhism
7KOREAN BUDDHISM
8KOREAN BUDDHISM: CONDITION
9Transcriber’s Notes
10Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin
11Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin
12INTRODUCTION
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