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1 day ago · Genshin, who was trained in both esoteric and exoteric teachings, wrote a number of treatises pertaining to the 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 influence on later Pure Land teachers such as Honen and ...
1 day ago · In Chinese Buddhism, veneration of the five Buddhas has dispersed from Chinese Esoteric Buddhism into other Chinese Buddhist traditions like Chan and Tiantai. They are regularly enshrined in many Chinese Buddhist temples and regularly invoked in rituals, such as the Liberation Rite of Water and Land and the Yoga Flaming Mouth ceremony ...
1 day ago · In 1465, Mt. Hiei priests attacked Honganji with 150 armed men, setting fire to the main hall. Rennyo escaped to an outlying area. They again attacked but he escaped. He changed to reciting a six-character phrase, “Na-mu-a-mi-da-butsu,” which Shinran also viewed as important and which was more widely practiced in Pure Land Buddhism.
2 days ago · It is said in a sutra: ‘In the hundred thousand Buddha lands, with the exception of discourses of expedient means, there is only the dharma of One Vehicle, not a second, nor a third.’. This One Vehicle is the One Mind. Those who seek the Buddha and dharma outside of mind are all children of rich men who have forgotten where their homes are.
3 days ago · When he regained consciousness, he said he had experienced the Pure Land. He said he met a sage in the Pure Land and asked, ‘Where is the Pure Land?’ The sage replied, ‘Tomorrow is the Pure Land.'” Hearing that the teaching was not about a distant future Pure Land but that the present moment is the Pure Land, Sunim also smiled brightly.
5 days ago · Sometimes called the Vatican of Pure Land Buddhism, this vast temple is one of the most and popular temples in the city. It’s highly recommended. Chion-in Sanmon temple: Aberu.Go / Shutterstock.com. Everything about Chion-in is on a grand scale, starting with the vast san-mon gate that serves as the official entrance to the compound.
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4 days ago · In the Western Wei Dynasty (386-534), Master Tanyuan founded Buddhism's Pure Land Sect in the temple. In the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Yuanren, an accomplished monk from Japan, came to China to study doctrines of Buddhism's Tiantai Sect and Secret Sect.
