The Buddhism of Forks or Chopsticks
Malcolm Hunt
29 December 2016
Translating Pure Land Buddhism into an…
Translating Pure Land Buddhism into an…
Recently, I was sitting on a train coming back home from Sydney Central and couldn’t help but overhear a conversation between a teenaged girl and
The small van drove through the archway of the monastery where I had been ordained and spent four years of my life as a monk.
The author has spent many years in China as a ‘bridge builder’, that is, being a bridge between East and West and introducing Pure Land
Many people come to meditation very troubled about how to do it successfully. Many of you here want to learn meditation in the Chinese Pure
It is a very common and reasonable question for those coming to Pure Land Buddhism for the first time to ask: “Who is Amida Buddha?”
One of the main discussions around Pure Land Buddhism is that of Other Power versus Self Power. Indeed one of the major criticisms of Pure
When I first committed myself to the Pure Land method, I too found many concepts challenging, none the least the practice of continually reciting, breathing
Pure Land is not a Buddhist heaven where we go when we die. It is a present conscious reality available to every person. It was
I first came across Pure Land Buddhism about five years ago, during a chance meeting of a Buddhist monk in Shanghai China. I had at
The temple cook is stoking the fire with dried branches of bamboo while the venerable Zhi Chang peels turnips over an old stone sink. It
It is a very common and reasonable question for those coming to Pure Land Buddhism for the first time to ask: “Who is Amitabha Buddha?”