After this change of direction, he put his energy into building up his home temple, the Zifu Temple on Hongluo Mountain in Hebei, into a center for Pure Land practice, and his talks and essays focused on issues related to Pure Land practice, philosophy, and apologetics. Twelfth in this series is the mid-Qing dynasty figure of Jixing Chewu, a Chan monk in the Linji line who, in mid-life, abandoned the practice of Chan and devoted himself exclusively to the Pure Land path. These are figures whom Pure Land devotees acknowledge as shapers, defenders, and revivers of the tradition. more One aspect of Chinese Pure Land history that has begun receiving attention during the past twenty years is the existence of a widely-recognized series of “patriarchs,” whose number stands at thirteen (although one list I have seen contains fourteen names). One aspect of Chinese Pure Land history that has begun receiving attention during the past twenty. The book concludes with an examination of how Taixu's followers developed the idea of the Pure Land in the human realm into a more coherent and modernized ideal. Jones reveals that the essay promotes visions of both paradises and utopias, and that Taixu supports his ideas with many lengthy sutra quotations.
He also shows that the 'human realm' can mean anywhere in Buddhist cosmology that humans reside, and that the essay's attempts to reconcile Buddhism with modern science is tentative and incomplete.
Jones demonstrates that, besides laying out the very modern idea of the Pure Land in the human realm as a slogan for Buddhist engagement with the problems of the modern world, the essay does not, as commonly assumed, discourage practices leading to rebirth in the Pure Land. In his commentary on the text, Jones argues that it has been widely misunderstood and mischaracterized. The essay, written in 1926 as part of Taixu's attempt to revive Chinese Buddhism with a Humanistic Buddhist approach, incorporates Western thought into a reconstruction of the idea of the 'Pure Land in the human realm'. Jones provides the first English language translation of one of the most important texts of modern Chinese Buddhism: monk-reformer Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm'.
Jones provides the first English language translation of one of the most.
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