《mentally constructing what already exissthe pure land thought of chan master jixingchewu》.pdf

Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies Volume 23 • Number 1 • 2000 n JIKIDO T A K A S A K I In memoriam Prof. Hajime Nakamura 1 D A N I E L BOUCHE R On Hu and Fan Again : the Transmission of Barbarian Manuscripts to China 7 A N N H E I R M A N What Happened to the Nun Maitreyl? 29 CHARLE S B . JONE S Mentally Constructing What Already Exists : The Pure Land Thought of Chan Master Jixing Chewu (1741-1810) 43 J A N NATTIE R The Realm of Aksobhya : A Missing Piece in the History of Pure Land Buddhism 7 1 REIK O O H N U M A The Story of RupavatI : A Female Past Birth of the Buddha 103 B H I K K H U P A S A D I K A A Hermeneutical Problem in SN 42, 12 (SN IV , 333) and A N X , 9 1 (A N V , 178) 147 O S K A R V O N HINUBE R Report on the Xllt h Conference of the IAB S 155 Accounts of the Xllt h IAB S Conference 161 C H A R L E S B , JONE S Mentally Constructing What Already Exists : The Pure Lan d Thought o f Chan Master Jixin g Chewu fflmWfig (1741-1810) L INTRODUCTION One aspect of Chinese Pure Land history that has begun receiving atten­ tion during the past twenty years is the existence of a widely-recognized series of patriarchs (zu whose number stands at thirteen (although one list I have seen contains fourteen names).1 These are figures whom Pure Land devotees acknowledge as shapers, defenders, and revivers of the tradition . Twelfth in this series is the mid-Qing dynasty figure of Jixing Chewu |£|IfS(ti§ , a Chan monk