Georgios T. Halkias, Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet

Authors

  • Michael M B Zrenner University of Heidelberg Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v8i2.248

Keywords:

Pure-Land, Pure Land, Amitabha, Amitābha, Religious History

Abstract

Georgios T. Halkias, Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet. Pure Land Buddhist Studies Series; Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2013. xxx + 335 pp. $49.00. ISBN 978-0-82483-590-3 (hardback).

References

Halkias, Georgios T. 2004. ‘Tibetan Buddhism Registered: A Catalogue from the Imperial Court of “Phang Thang”’. The Eastern Buddhist 36.1/2: 46–105.

— 2006. ‘Pure-Lands and Other Visions in Seventeenth-Century Tibet: A Gnam-chos sadhana for the Pure-land Sukhavati Revealed in 1658 by Gnam-Chos Mi-’gyur-rdo-rje (1645-1667)’. In Bryan J. Cuevas and Kurtis R. Schaeffer (eds.), Power, Politics and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century: 103–28. Leiden: Brill.

— 2009. ‘Compassionate Aspirations and their Fulfillment: Dol-po-pa’s “A Prayer for Birth in Sukhavati”’. In Edward A. Arnold (ed.), As Long as Space Endures—Essays on the Kalacakra Tantra in Honor of H. H. the Dalai Lama: 259–75. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion.

— 2013. Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet. Pure Land Buddhist Studies Series; Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Jones, Charles B. 2014. ‘Reaching the Pure Land of Amitabha from Tibet’. Review of Georgios T. Halkias (2013), Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet. H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=40391 (accessed 7 November 2014)

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Published

2014-11-27

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Book Reviews

How to Cite

Zrenner, M. M. B. (2014). Georgios T. Halkias, Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet. Religions of South Asia, 8(2), 248-252. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v8i2.248