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    Pure Land is the concept of a celestial realm of a buddha or bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism where many Buddhists aspire to be reborn. The term "Pure...
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    Pure Land Buddhism or Pure Land School (Chinese: 淨土宗; pinyin: Jìngtǔzōng; Japanese: 浄土仏教, romanized: Jōdo bukkyō; Korean: 정토종; RR: Jeongto-jong; Vietnamese:...
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    "The True Essence of the Pure Land Teaching"), also known as Shin Buddhism or True Pure Land Buddhism, is a school of Pure Land Buddhism founded by the...
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  • The Pure Land is a novel written by David Foster. The novel was published in 1974, and was Foster's first. It was the winner of the first The Age Book...
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    Faith-based devotional practices focused on rebirth in pure lands are common in East Asia Pure Land Buddhism. The influential Mahāyāna concept of the three...
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    of the Vajrayana teachings. The mandala represents the nature of the Pure Land, Enlightened mind. An example of this type of mandala is Vajrabhairava...
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    advocated a view called "mind-only Pure Land" (wei-hsin ching-t’u), which held that the Buddha and the Pure Land are just mind. The practice of nianfo...
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    devotion, had come to adopt an eclectic assortment of esoteric rituals and Pure Land practices as "expedient means" to understand the sutra itself.: 79 : 385 ...
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  • Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Dhāraṇī, sometimes called the Pure Land Rebirth Mantra, is considered an important mantra or dhāraṇī in Pure Land Buddhism...
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    Ōjōyōshū 往生要集 ("Essentials of Birth in the Pure Land"), a treatise on Pure Land practice which influenced later Pure Land Japanese figures. Although the Tendai...
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    (602–668), and Fazang (643–712). The Pure Land tradition, which is based on the veneration of Amitabha and the works of Pure Land masters like Tanluan (476–542)...
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  • My Pure Land is a 2017 Urdu-language British drama film directed by British Pakistani filmmaker Sarmad Masud. It was selected as the British entry for...
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  • Look up pure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pure may refer to: A pure function A pure virtual function PureSystems, a family of computer systems introduced...
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    identifying as Buddhists in Japan. The largest sects of Japanese Buddhism are Pure Land Buddhism with 22 million believers, followed by Nichiren Buddhism with...
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    Buddhas preside over pure lands, such as Sukhavati. Once Maitreya becomes a Buddha, he will rule over the Ketumati pure land, an earthly paradise sometimes...
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    synthesis of Pure Land and Huayan Buddhism as well as for his biographical collections of the lives of eminent laymen, laywomen and Pure Land sages. Peng...
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    very influential in Tiantai and Japanese Buddhism, "this world and the pure land are not, ultimately, separate places but are in fact non dual." According...
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    Buddhist traditions in Vietnam, Pure Land Buddhism was not independently recognized as a sect of Buddhism (as Pure Land schools have been recognized, for...
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    times, where it is the Rinzai school. Unlike the other Buddhist lineages, Pure Land Buddhism does not maintain a strict master-disciple relationship, however...
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    also known as "Medicine Buddha", the healing Buddha. His pure land is Vaiḍūryanirbhāsa ("Pure Beryl Light"). Ratnasambhava ("Jewel Born") Vairocana ("the...
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    also the Lotus Storehouse Pure Land. Huayan also saw Vairocana's Pure land as non-dual and interfused with Amitabha's Pure Land of Sukhavati. The practice...
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    increasingly famous Pure Land Buddhism from a Tendai viewpoint, but his magnum opus, the Ōjōyōshū (往生要集, "Essentials of Birth in the Pure Land"), had considerable...
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    esoteric interpretation of nembutsu and Pure Land. Unlike other Pure Land schools, Kakuban held that the Pure Land exists in this very world and he also...
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    Buddhas and bodhisattvas residing in Pure Lands. With the rise of devotion to the Amithaba Buddha in Pure Land Buddhism faith gained a central role in...
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    placed by Guanyin in the heart of a lotus and then sent to the western pure land of Sukhāvatī. Guanyin is often referred to as the "most widely beloved...
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  • can be found in the veneration of the transcendent Buddha Amitabha of Pure Land Buddhism and of bodhisattvas like Mañjusri, Avalokiteshvara (known as...
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    own pure lands, with the aspiration to be reborn into a pure land being the central point of Pure Land Buddhism. Although all five Buddhas have pure lands...
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    Amitabha upon death to the "Western Paradise" or "Pure Land", where Buddhahood is more easily attained. Pure Land attracted members from all of the different...
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    remembered as the Eighth Patriarch of the Pure Land tradition, and is known for his analysis of the Pure Land thought, and reconciling "mind-only" interpretations...
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    unhappiness (Apaya). Pure Land Buddhism of Mahayana believes in a special place apart from the 31 planes of existence called Pure Land. It is believed that...
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