The bulk of 'Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism' is a collection of essays by Rijin Yasuda (1900-1982), a Shin Buddhist thinker in the modernizing tradition of Kiyozawa Manshi (1863-1903). Yasuda ...

While at their core the two movements were very different, on the surface the rise of Pure Land Buddhism in Japan bears some striking parallels to the rise of Puritanism in the West. Between the ...

The video traces Pure Land Buddhism’s evolution from India to China, Tibet, and Japan, highlighting figures like Shinran who made the practice accessible to all. Combining cosmology, ...

Pure Land Buddhism took off in Japan when the monk Honen (1133-1212) simplified the teachings and practices of the sect so that anyone could cope with them.

During the Kamakura period (1185–1333), Buddhism became the faith of all people of all classes. This was due in part to the many priests who became itinerant evangelists and brought Pure Land Buddhism ...

A photography enthusiast, Taniguchi combines his love of the art with his role as head priest at Chohouin, his family's Pure Land Buddhist (jōdoshū) temple where he was "born into and grew up in ...

Pure Land Buddhism believes that by reciting the name of the Amida Buddha (Namu Amida Butsu, roughly “I take refuge in Amida,”) a person can be reborn in the Pure Land after death. Of course ...

"Heaven and Hell in Japanese Art" is an eclectic mix of statues, paintings and tapestries exhibited in the Buddhist wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through May 1, 2011. Most of the pieces on ...

For about 100 years, the magnificent Buddhist paradise created in northern Japan was equal to and even surpassed anything found in Kyoto, which was usually considered the center of it all.

Pure Land Buddhism took off in Japan when the monk Honen (1133-1212) simplified the teachings and practices of the sect so that anyone could cope with them.