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made by the Bodhisattva Bhaisajyaguru before he be- comes a buddha. The tableaux of Maitreya Pure Land (a somewhat misleading t ...
sense of his instantaneous arrival. Amitabha in such a composition may also be replaced by other buddhas, such as Maitreya. Rel ...
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up in some Mahayana circles that the dharma had en- tered into an age of decline in which the diminished capacities of adheren ...
jing,therefore came to eclipse all other practices within the sectarian Pure Land traditions. Western scholar- ship until recent ...
lands, the contemplation of Amitabha and his realm, nevertheless, historically has come to occupy a signif- icant position in t ...
The focus upon the events surrounding a devotee’s death similarly gave rise to prognosticatory practices aimed at discerning evi ...
Gómez, Luis O., trans. The Land of Bliss: The Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless Light: Sanskrit and Chinese Versions of the ...
heavenly glory is the idea that pure lands are commu- nities of saints, and that their inhabitants may influ- ence the course of ...
generally). The first of these ideas is not only an ana- gogic understanding of the concept, but also a psy- chological or epist ...
the pure land, be it Amitabha’s land, as in the Taima Mandara(based on the Guan Wuliangshou jing, Con- templation of the Buddha ...
Mahayana expressions developed out of the dars ́ana complex, which is well documented in the earliest ma- terials, and were se ...
(538–597) incorporated it into his system of practice. Zhiyi was a devotee of Amitabha (and other buddhas). In addition, he wor ...
teachings. Shinran considered Amitabha to be the Adi Buddha, and he emphasizes “other power,” exclusive nenbutsu,crosswise tran ...
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RAHULA Rahula was the son of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha-to-be. On hearing the news of Rahula’s birth, according to parac ...
There is an old tradition (continued now especially in Tibetan Buddhism) of representing the six realms graphically as forming s ...
Rebirth and cosmic causality In basic Buddhist doctrinal terms, an answer to the dif- ficult question of rebirth in light of the ...
In Japanese Buddhism, posthumous ORDINATION, the monastic ordination of the dying on their death- bed, is commonly practiced as ...
RELICS AND RELICS CULTS Relic veneration has been virtually ubiquitous in the history of Buddhist traditions. The reputed remain ...
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