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Pure Land Buddhism or the Pure Land School (Chinese: 淨土宗; pinyin: Jìngtǔzōng) is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in a Pure Land. It is one of the most widely practiced traditions of Buddhism in East Asia. The Pure Land Buddhist school is also known as the "Nembutsu school" or the "Lotus School".
The Transformed Land of compassionate means (方便化土, Hōben Kedo) - the Saṃbhogakāya pure land which is described in the sutras as having various features (trees, jeweled ponds, etc) and is the land that is created by the power of Amitabha Buddha's past vows.
The 7th century Pure Land patriarch Shandao commented on the sutra in his Fashizan 法事讚 (Praise for Dharma Rites), which focuses on the rites associated with the recitation of the sutra. [2] It was also commented on by Sengzhao (384–414), Zhiyi (538–597 CE), Wohnyo , Huijing (578-645 CE) and Kuiji (632-682 CE).
[11] [12] This land of Sukhāvatī would later come to be known as a pure land (Ch. 淨土) in Chinese translation. The sutra describes in great detail Sukhāvatī and its inhabitants, and how they are able to attain rebirth there. The text also provides a detailed account of the various levels and beings in the Mahāyāna Buddhist cosmology.
In 1224 he wrote his most significant book, the Kyogyoshinsho ("The True Teaching, Practice, Faith and Attainment of the Pure Land"), which contained excerpts from the Three Pure Land sutras and the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra along with his own commentaries [4] and the writings of the Jodo Shinshu Patriarchs Shinran drew inspiration ...
Sukhavati is also called the Land of Bliss or Western Pure Land and is the most well-known of the Mahayana Buddhist pure lands due to the popularity of Pure Land Buddhism in East Asia. Sukhavati is also an important postmortem goal for Tibetan Buddhists , and is a common buddhafield used in the practice of phowa ("transference of consciousness ...
The Five Mindful Practices, which Shandao quotes directly from Vasubandhu's Discourse on the Pure Land (Jìngtǔ lùn 浄土論) are: (1) worship Amitabha reverentially with a concentrated mind and make offerings; (2) praise the glory of Amitabha and his Pure Land; (3) concentrate, contemplate and think of Amitabha and the noble beings of the ...
This chapter delves in more detail the basis for Pure Land Buddhist thought namely: . That the Buddha Amitabha made a series of vows to save all beings; That the most important vow is the 18th or Primal Vow to lead beings to the Pure Land if they recite his name
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