![]() Readers will come away with a new perspective on Pure Land scholarship and a vivid image of Eshinni and the world in which she lived. He provides a complete translation of the letters and an explication of them that reveals the character and flavor of early Shin Buddhism. ![]() Dobbins, a leading scholar of Pure Land Buddhism, has made creative use of these letters to shed new light on life and religion in medieval Japan. The medieval and the modern in Shin Buddhism.Įshinni (1182-1268?), a Buddhist nun and the wife of Shinran (1173-1262), the celebrated founder of the True Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhism, was largely unknown until the discovery of a collection of her letters in 1921. Pure Land Buddhism and the medieval experience Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. ![]()
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