Returning from a Japanese funeral ... I read the postcard and learned that in the Jodo Shinshu sect (Pure Land Buddhism), death is not considered an impurity because when a person dies, they ...

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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, philosophy ...

Monks and worshippers spent the night of April 18 chanting sutras to honor the founder of Chion-in temple in Kyoto’s ...

In later centuries, monks who trained there went on to found their own Buddhist sects including Pure Land and Japanese Zen Buddhism. In contrast with Saichō, Kūkai taught that all people could achieve ...