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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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    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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    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 former...
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    practice, including Tiantai, Huayan, Chan Buddhism, and Pure Land Buddhism. From its inception, Chinese Buddhism has been influenced by native Chinese religions...
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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 and other...
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    Sukhavati (category Pure lands)
    the pure land of Amitābha in Mahayana Buddhism. It is also called the Land of Bliss or Western Pure Land and is the most well-known of Buddhist pure lands...
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    Jōdo-shū (category Pure Land Buddhism)
    Jōdo-shū (浄土宗, "The Pure Land School"), also known as Jōdo Buddhism, is a branch of Pure Land Buddhism derived from the teachings of the Japanese ex-Tendai...
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    Nianfo (category Pure Land Buddhism)
    practice central to the tradition of Pure Land Buddhism, though not exclusive to it. In the context of Pure Land practice, it typically refers to the...
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    bodhisattva of power that flanks Amitābha in Pure Land Buddhism and as Vajrasattva in Tibetan Buddhism. They are usually portrayed as a pair of figures...
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    Amitābha (redirect from Amida Buddhism)
    Buddha of Pure Land Buddhism. He is also known as Amitāyus, which is understood to be his enjoyment body (Saṃbhogakāya). In Vajrayana Buddhism, Amitābha...
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    [citation needed] Mandalas have sometimes been used in Pure Land Buddhism to graphically represent Pure Lands, based on descriptions found in the Larger Sutra...
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    against Buddhism, with persecution and a forced separation between Buddhism and Shinto (Shinbutsu bunri). The largest sects of Japanese Buddhism are Pure Land...
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    Amitayurdhyana Sutra (category Pure Land Buddhism)
    Life) is a Mahayana sutra in Pure Land Buddhism, a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It is one of the three principle Pure Land sutras along with the Longer...
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    Shandao (category Pure Land Buddhism)
    influential writer on Pure Land Buddhism, prominent in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. His writings had a strong influence on later Pure Land masters, including...
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    from 50,000 to over 500,000. Repeating the Pure Land Rebirth dhāraṇī is another method in Pure Land Buddhism. Similar to the mindfulness practice of repeating...
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    Mahasthamaprapta (category Pure Land Buddhism)
    Pure Land Buddhism. In the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, Mahāsthāmaprāpta tells of how he gained enlightenment through the practice of nianfo, or continuous pure mindfulness...
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    the Amithaba Buddha in Pure Land Buddhism faith gained a central role in Buddhist practice. The Japanese form of Pure Land Buddhism, under the teachers Hōnen...
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    sentient life. Late Buddhism in Central Asia taught the building of auspicious signs or miraculous Buddhist images. Pure Land Buddhism in China and Japan...
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  • spiritually enlightened. Jiriki is commonly practiced in Zen Buddhism. In Pure Land Buddhism, tariki often refers to the power of Amitābha Buddha. These...
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    Chin Kung (category Pure Land Buddhism)
    organization based on the teachings of Pure Land Buddhism. He was known for his teaching of Pure Land Buddhism and work in promoting inter-faith harmony...
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    the book Zen For Americans. In the essay titled "The God Conception of Buddhism" he attempts to explain how a Buddhist looks at the ultimate without an...
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    theological underpinnings of sutra-based Buddhist schools as well as with Pure Land Buddhism. In 1994, the Jogye order managed 1725 temples, 10,056 clerics and...
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    school of Buddhism in Vietnam. Pure Land Buddhism is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism and is said to be one of the most popular schools of Buddhism in Vietnam...
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    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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    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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  • it spread to Korea, Japan, Vietnam with Buddhism. The concept of gongyō is also common in Japanese Pure Land Buddhist schools such as Jodo Shu and Jodo...
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    Shinran (category Pure Land Buddhism)
    Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253331862. Watts, Jonathan; Tomatsu, Yoshiharu (2005). Traversing the Pure Land Path:...
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    (2023). Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism, pp. 35-36. University of Hawaii Press. Proffitt, Aaron P. (2023). Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism, pp. 83-85. University...
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  • Zen or Pure Land Buddhism). The same kanji are also pronounced kashō as an honorific title of preceptor or high priest in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism and wajō...
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  • by the teaching of Pure Land Buddhism wherein it is believed that through double suicide, one can approach rebirth in the Pure Land. The word shinjū is...
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