Seeing Clearly
of Pure Land Buddhism. For some, it's a meditative tool. For others, it is an
expression of gratitude to Amida and genuine faith in him. For them, it's this faith
that gets you to the Pure Land. For yet other Pure Land schools, however, all you
have ...
Author: Nicolas Bommarito
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190887508
Page: 320
View: 965
The Eastern Buddhist
teh gospel of buddha
Ronald Eyre on the Long Search
Japanese Religions
Beyond Golden Clouds
翻翻,四個顯题 approach ) —can be found in the principal text of the Pure Land
sect , the forty - eight promises of Amida in ... was the persuasive emphasis on
the six - syllable nembutsu mantra , Namu Amida Butsu ( Hail the Amida Buddha
! ) ...
Author: Philip K. Hu
Publisher: Art Inst of Chicago
ISBN:
Page: 216
View: 465
The Modern Buddhist Christian Dialogue
Clearly , Honen ' s nembutsu teaching represents a very simplified form of
traditional Buddhist Practice indeed . ... of course , centers on his definition of
faith as a self - powered act of the human will to believe the promises of Amida
Buddha ' s ...
Author: Paul O. Ingram
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Page: 441
View: 400
Christianity and Buddhism
Area Handbook for Communist China
There were periods in which Buddhism was welcomed by both the ruling class
and the masses ; at other times it suffered ... Amidism , the Chinese cult of Amida
Buddha , which promises rebirth in the Western heaven to its followers , found ...
Author: Frederic H. Chaffee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 672
View: 750
History of Religions
A Library of the World s Best Literature Ancient and Modern A Z
THE DOMINANT NOTE OF THE LAW [ This is one of the Buddhist ( Wasan , ' or
hymns , from the latter part of the sixteenth ( ? ) ... Since gaining a birth among
those that are human , Just now I have learned that I may become godlike ; So
now I seek Buddha's help , trusting the promise . ... Engrossed by my bonds to a
world that is fleeting , Naught led me to pray , — " Namu Amida Buddha ; » + As
wind to a ...
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page:
View: 576
Library of the World s Best Literature A Z
THE DOMINANT NOTE OF THE LAW [ This is one of the Buddhist ( Wasan , ' or
hymns , from the latter part of the sixteenth ( ? ) ... Since gaining a birth among
those that are human , Just now I have learned that I may become godlike ; So
now I seek Buddha's help , trusting the promise . ... Engrossed by my bonds to a
world that is fleeting , Naught led me to pray , - “ Namu Amida Buddha ; ) + As
wind to a ...
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page:
View: 687
Structures and Patterns of Religion
Many religions have a word of promise as basis for faith , as for example in
addition to the Israeli and Christian religions the faith - religion of Amida -
Buddhism where the so - called “ premature vow ” of Buddha Amida contains the
“ 48 words ...
Author: Gustav Mensching
Publisher: Orient Book Distributors
ISBN:
Page: 366
View: 821
Living Architecture Japanese
Hönen , the founder of the Jodo Sect of Buddhism , was the son of a provincial
sheriff . ... the name of Amitabha Buddha and have faith in the fulfilled promise of
Amitabha that he would not himself become Buddha until all people were saved .
Author: Tomoya Masuda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 191
View: 138
Buddha and Amitabha
But Master , " continued the disciple , “ is the promise of the happy region vain
talk and a myth ? ” “ What is this promise ? " asked Buddha , and the disciple
replied . “ There is in the West a Paradisian country called the Holy Land ,
exquisitely ...
Author: Shirin Fozdar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 34
View: 185
Scouting
Strongholds of the Samurai
It also stressed the dire consequences of non - belief as set against the promise
of salvation to believers , a dichotomy ... This brief prayer , Namu Amida Butsu (
Hail to Amida Buddha ) , which could be repeated up to 60 , 000 times a day by ...
Author: Stephen Turnbull
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN:
Page: 272
View: 624