History and Scholarship Nichiren Lineages

@Intermall

Top: Society: Religion_and_Spirituality: Buddhism: Lineages: Nichiren: History_and_Scholarship:

• Top/Society/Religion and Spirituality/Buddhism/History
• Top/Society/Religion and Spirituality/Religious Studies/Eastern Religions/Buddhism

• - Offers biographies of various Lotus Sutra commentators, along with select academic lectures.
  
• - Student paper (University of Virginia, 1999) profiling Soka Gakkai's history, beliefs, issues and controversies. Includes links, abstracts and a print bibliography.
  
• - Syllabus and bibliography of works on Nichiren's historical background, career, philosophy and tradition by Jacquiline Stone.
  
• - Lectures on the Lotus Sutra by Rev. Shokai Kanai of the Nichiren Shu.
  
• - Attempts to convey the complex imagery behind the root characters (chinese radicals) from their simple meanings.
  
• - Offers excerpted biographical entry describing Nichiren from the "Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion."
  
• - Paper by Peggy Morgan which discusses ethical imperatives associated with historical and religious claims primarily within the Rissho Kosekai Buddhist experience.
  
• - Student paper profiling Nichiren Shoshu's history, beliefs, issues and controversies with links, abstracts, and bibliography.
  
• - Department of Nichiren Buddhism and a research institute in Nichiren Buddhist Studies established to educate student priests of the Nichiren sect of Buddhism.
  
• - A review by Brian Brocking in the online Journal of Buddhist Ethics of "A Time to Chant: The Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Britain" authored by Bryan Wilson and Karel Dobbelaere.
  
• - Article by Jacqueline Stone featured in a Special issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, which offers a brief historical overview outlining the origins of "Lotus exclusivism" in Nichiren's thought and how it affected the development
  
• - St Martin's College Department of Religion and Ethics synopsis of Nichiren Buddhism.
  
• - Collection of quotes and summaries, with links to full text writings based on translations found in the Yampolsky edition of "Letters of Nichiren" (translated by Burton Watson et al.).
  
• - A collection of Buddhist myths, parables, and essays.
  
• - Erika Gsell provides a brief scholarly comparison of some aspects of the theoretical and practical approaches of Nichiren Buddhism with aspects of Jungian analytical psychology.
  
• - Endo Asai considers Nichiren's view of the human state in terms of both thought and actual circumstances. (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat reader software required).