Mark L. Blum is Professor of Japanese at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism: A Study and Translation of Gyonen's Jodo Homon Genrusho and the coeditor (with Shin'ya Yasutomi) of Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism. Robert F. Rhodes is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Otani University.

Preface
Yasutomi Shin'ya

Abbreviations

1. Shin Buddhism in the Meiji Period
Mark L. Blum

Kiyozawa Manshi

2. Kiyozawa Manshi: Life and Thought
Mark L. Blum

3. Why Do Buddhists Lack Self-Respect?
Kiyozawa Manshi
translated by Mark L. Blum

4. Negotiating Religious Morality and Common Morality
Kiyozawa Manshi
translated by Mark L. Blum

5. The Nature of My Faith
Kiyozawa Manshi
translated by Mark L. Blum

Soga Ryojin

6. Soga Ryojin: Life and Thought
Robert F. Rhodes

7. A Savior on Earth: The Meaning of Dharmakara Bodhisattva's Advent
Soga Ryojin
translated by Jan Van Bragt

8. Shinran's View of Buddhist History
Soga Ryojin
translated by Jan Van Bragt

9. Lectures on the Tannisho
Soga Ryojin
translated by Jan Van Bragt

Kaneko Daiei

10. Kaneko Daiei: Life and Times
Robert Rhodes

11. Prolegomena to Shin Buddhist Studies
Kaneko Daiei
translated by Robert Rhodes

Yasuda Rijin

12. Yasuda Rijin: Life and Thought
Paul Watt

13. The Practical Understanding of Buddhism
Yasuada Rijin
translated by Paul Watt

14. The Mirror of Nothingness
Yasuda Rijin
translated by Paul Watt

15. A Name but Not a Name Alone
Yasuda Rijin
translated by Paul Watt

Combined Glossary
Bibliography
Index