TAN BUTSU GE : Song in Praise of the Buddha/Song of the Life of No Regret

Chicago, IL: The Dharma House, 1976. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Good; sound w/light edge wear, surface rubs & faint creasings to corner tips; archival tape fortification of worn spine. Buddhism. Pure Land sect --- how to be reborn in the Pure Land. A short, chant in verse; a hymn in the full sense. One of many Chinese reditions of Indian Sutras dating from c. 250 A.D. A song praising Buddha. Text , Concluding lines: "Should my physical being end today/ Be it in a bitter, even poisonous, way/ Still I move forward/ Knowing no regrets" (loose translation by 100Pockets). Author, American-Japanese Shin Shu priest Gyomay M. Kubose, founder of the Buddhist Temple of Chicago. Text in Chinese ideograms, Japanese pronunciations ascribed to the ideograms, and rough English translations in line with ascribed Japanese readings. Commentaries to rear. 56 pgs.