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Alfred Bloom’s life and work
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This site includes Alfred Bloom’s biography, photos, online articles, bibliography, links, and more.
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Alfred Bloom is one of the world's foremost authorities on the study of Shin Buddhism. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, taught World Religions and Buddhism at the University of Oregon and the University of Hawaii. He was Dean at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, sponsored by the Buddhist Churches of America. Prof. Bloom is an ordained Shin priest.
Prof. Bloom is the author of The Essential Shinran: A Buddhist Path of True Entrusting. He is also the editor of Living in Amida’s Universal Vow: Essays on Shin Buddhism, a collection of articles on Shin Buddhism.
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Dr. Bloom's work appearing in World Wisdom books:
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Shinran’s Gospel of Pure Grace. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1965.
The Life of Shinran Shonin: The Journey to Self Acceptance. Leiden : Brill, 1968.
Indian and Far Eastern Religious Traditions, by Robert D. Baird and Alfred Bloom. New York : Harper & Row, 1972.
The Linguistic Shaping of Thought : A Study in the Impact of Language on Thinking in China and the West. Hillsdale, NJ : L. Erlbaum, 1981.
Tannisho: A Resource for Modern Living. Honolulu : Buddhist Study Center, 1981.
Shoshinge: The Heart of Shin Buddhism, text, Alfred Bloom ; translated by T. Nagatani & Ruth Tabrah. Honolulu, Hawaii : Buddhist Study Center Press, 1986.
Strategies for Modern Living: A Commentary with the Text of the Tannisho. Berkeley, CA : Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 1992; with Gary Snyder, Heian International, 1993.
Living in Amida’s Universal Vow: Essays on Shin Buddhism, edited by Alfred Bloom. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2004.
The Essential Shinran : A Buddhist Path of True Entrusting, compiled and edited by Alfred Bloom. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2007.
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Readers will find more about Dr. Alfred Bloom on the website The Shin DharmaNet. The site includes a full free self-study course on Shin, "Shin Buddhism in Modern Culture (in 25 chapters, with other learning materials), Streams of Tradition: Buddhism, East to We a book (in pdf format) that is a useful background to Buddhism in general, as well as Jodo Shinshu, and several other free full books in electronic format. There are also some excellent links, including one to the ongoing online project to make the full Collected Works of Shinran available on the internet. A section of the site is devoted to a listing of online articles by Dr. Bloom.
The Shin DharmaNet site has a good glossary of Shin and Buddhist terms, and much more that is worthy of exploration.
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