Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan
University of Hawaii Press, September 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Eshinni (1182-1268?), a Buddhist nun and the wife of Shinran (1173-1262), the celebrated founder of the True Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhism, was largely unknown until the discovery of a collection of her letters in 1921.....