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:...

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...

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...

practice, including Tiantai, Huayan, Chan Buddhism, and Pure Land Buddhism. From its inception, Chinese Buddhism has been influenced by native Chinese religions...

Amitābha is also the most important practice in Pure Land Buddhism. In the context of East Asian Pure Land practice, the term nianfo typically refers to...

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...

important for East Asian Pure Land Buddhism, a major branch of East Asian Mahāyāna. It is one of the three principle Pure Land sutras along with the Amitayus...

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...

Mahayana Buddhist concept which is discussed in Pure Land Buddhism and other forms of East Asian Buddhism. It generally refers to the power of a Buddha...

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...

Buddha of Pure Land Buddhism. He is also known as Amitāyus, which is understood to be his enjoyment body (Saṃbhogakāya). In Vajrayana Buddhism, Amitābha...

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...

[citation needed] Mandalas have sometimes been used in Pure Land Buddhism to graphically represent Pure Lands, based on descriptions found in the Larger Sutra...

theological underpinnings of sutra-based Buddhist schools as well as with Pure Land Buddhism. In 1994, the Jogye order managed 1725 temples and 10,056 clerics...

contemporary China, the most popular forms of Chinese Buddhism are the Pure Land and Chan schools. Pure Land Buddhism is very accessible for common people, since...

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...

Abhirati (lit. "The Joyous") is the eastern pure land associated with Akshobhya in Mahayana Buddhism. It is described in the Akṣobhyatathāgatasyavyūha...

sentient life. Late Buddhism in Central Asia taught the building of auspicious signs or miraculous Buddhist images. Pure Land Buddhism in China and Japan...

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...

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...

East Asian Buddhism. It is one of the three central scriptures of East Asian Pure Land Buddhism, and is widely revered and chanted by Pure Land Buddhists...

Pure Land Buddhism. In the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, Mahāsthāmaprāpta tells of how he gained enlightenment through the practice of nianfo, or continuous pure mindfulness...

Japanese Buddhism are Pure Land Buddhism with 22 million believers, followed by Nichiren Buddhism with 10 million believers, Shingon Buddhism with 5.4...

Pure Land Buddhism and a contemporary of the influential Chinese Buddhist monk Tánluán (Chinese: 曇鸞). Shandao was possibly one of the first Pure land...

where it is the Rinzai school. Unlike the other Buddhist lineages, Pure Land Buddhism does not maintain a strict master-disciple relationship, however,...

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...

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...

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...

Pure Land". Fantian is the Chinese name for the Buddhist heavenly king Brahmā, and Jingtu is Chinese for "pure land", the focus of Pure Land Buddhism...

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...