In this book, Mark Blum offers a critical look at the thought and impact of the late 13th-century Buddhist historian Gyonen (1240-1321) and the emergent Pure La

This is the English translation of an influential medieval Japanese text, the Jodo Homon Genrusho of Gyonen (1240-1321). This text was the first history to be w

A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism offers a comprehensive, nuanced, and chronological account of the evolution of Buddhist religion in Japan from the sixth