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E-book A Buddha Land in This World : Philosophy, Utopia, and Radical Buddhism

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About fifty meters south of ?hiradai station in the mountainous, rural area of Ha-kone (Japan) there is a small and inconspicuous temple named Rinsenji???. The temple belongs to the S?t? sect of Zen Buddhism and was established in 1559. It is not a particularly interesting or noteworthy temple except for one brief episode in its history. In May 1909 the police arrested Rinsenji’s chief priest, Uchiyama Gud? ????, and searched the temple. They found an illegal printing press under the main altar, and they also claimed to have found dynamite and fuses.The printing press was used by Uchiyama to print socialist and anarchist pam-phlets as well as some of his own radical writings in which he argued for land reform, for anarcho-communist revolution, against fatalistic belief in karma (i.e., the belief that one’s current misery is due to bad karma resulting from bad deeds in previous lives), and against the emperor.1 The latter was used as “evidence” for an accusation of his involvement in a plot to kill the emperor, the so-called High Treason Incident ????. After a show trial that was “mostly based on circumstantial evidence and or-chestrated by the Japanese government to get rid of the radical left,”2 he and several others were sentenced to death. He was executed on January 24, 1911.Uchiyama is one of the best known so-called “radical Buddhists,” although he never used that term himself. The notion of radical Buddhism is a fairly recent aca-demic invention for the purpose of categorizing and characterizing a rather loose collection of trends and movements in mostly early twentieth century Buddhism.3James Mark Shields and Patrice Ladwig, probably the foremost academic experts on the subject, define the notion of “radical” in “radical Buddhism” as a “position that is (1) politically engaged; and (2) in opposition to the hegemonic socio-political and/or economic ideology (or ideologies) of a given period,” and a “radical Buddhist” as “anyone engaged in the explicit or implicit use of Buddhist doctrines or principles to foment resistance to the state and/or the socio-political and/or economic status quo.”4 Most radical Buddhists were not just radical in this sociopolitical sense, how-ever, but also in their strive to reform or modernize Buddhism. For example, two decades after Uchiyama’s death, the Youth League for New Buddhism accepted a mission statement that pledged both “to reform [the capitalist economic system] and realize the society of the future” and “to promote a Buddhism appropriate to the new age.

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Judul Seri

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181.043 BRO a

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New York : Punctum books., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

491 hlm

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English

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9781685710354

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181.043

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Buddhist Philosophy

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