About the Author
Author’s Acknowledgements
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Foreword
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Bandaged Place
Part 1 Portal to the Infinite
Chapter 2 Betting on the Symbolic World
Chapter 3 Hell Is Decidedly My Abode
Chapter 4 The Horizon of the Impossible
Part 2 Cascade of Blessing
Chapter 5 Shared Out in Endless Abundance
Infinite brightness
Chapter 6 The True Intent
Chapter 7 All with the Same Mind
Chapter 8 The True Essence of the Pure Land Way
Part 3 Other Power
Chapter 9 Great Practice Is No Practice
Chapter 10 Shinjin: The Diamond-Like True Mind
Chapter 11 Evil Transforming into Good
Chapter 12 The Darkness of Ignorance Has Already Cleared
Chapter 13 Free of Any Form of Calculation
Chapter 14 A Newness that Renews Us Ceaselessly
Chapter 15 Coming About of Itself: Jinen
Chapter 16 The Promise of a Sacred World
Appendix: A Guide to Shinran’s Writings and Sources
Shinran’s writings
Shinran’s sources and the Pure Land masters
Contemporary readings
Endnotes
Index