Download or read book Understanding Shinran written by Hee-Sung Keel and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Shinran offers a sensitive and balanced examination of the life and teachings of the founder of Pure Land Buddhism. The author shows how the ongoing drama of salvation through the grace of Amida -- a mutual engagement of form and the formless, of ignorant humans and the awakened Buddha -- can be read as a message of hope by Buddhists and Christians alike.