Pure Land Teaching and the Pure Land School
The relationship between tradition and transmission
The relationship between tradition and transmission
Amitabha’s assured deliverance
The crucial difference between the 18th and 19th Vows
Why the Name is at the heart of Pure Land practice
Why Pure Land Buddhism should not be interpreted…
Why the primary practice surpasses the secondary…
Deep faith based on Amitabha’s vow (the real), not the delusive mind (the unreal) Out of the seven kinds of determinant faith, we have so
Abandoning the self and taking refuge in the Buddha The explication of the Sincere Mind and the two kinds of determinant deep faith (as mentioned
How the the first component of deep faith relates to sentient…
After his exegesis on the Sincere Mind, Master Shandao set forth to explain the meaning of the Deep Mind. The Deep Mind is the second
It is a cliché to say that publishing an introductory textbook to a vast and philosophical subject like Buddhism is much harder than some writers
Last time, we explored how a Pure Land aspirant attains both “genuineness in self-benefiting” and “genuineness in benefiting others” through the dedication of real merits