Essential Information & explanations, latest texts & monographs on
Amitabha.
A First Book of Quantum Field Theory by Amitabha Lahiri
Origin of Inertia: Extended Mach's Principle and Cosmological Consequences by Amitabha Ghosh
Zenkoji and Its Icon by Donald F. McCallum
Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha (Studies in East Asian Buddhism, 17) by Richard K. Payne
Persons, Mind and Value by Bijoy H. Boruah
Kinematic Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms by Asok Kumar Mallik
Immunotherapy and Bone Marrow Transplantation by Thomas R. Spitzer
The Second Linguistic Turn: Chomsky and the Philosophy of Language by Amitabha Das Gupta
Structural Adjustment Programme and Food Security: Hunger and Poverty in India by Amitava Mukherjee
Enhanced Oil Recovery (Aiche Symposium Series, No 280, Vol 87) by Amit Chakma
Amitabha: A Story Of Buddhist Theology by James Russell Lowell
A General Explanation of the Buddha Speaks of Amitabha Sutra by Ronald B. Epstein
The Western Paradise of Amitabha by Manly P. Hall
Dhodia : industrialisation and chang[e] in a primitive community by Amitabha Sarkar
Amitabha: A Story of Buddhist Theology by Paul Carus
Amitabha
Buddhism
Terms and concepts
People
Schools and sects
Texts
Timeline
Temples
Culture
Buddhism by region
List of topics
Tang Dynasty Amitabha sculpture. Hidden Stream Temple Cave, Longmen Grottoes, China.
Amitabha, the Buddha of Limitless Light (or Life), is the primary deity of the Pure Land school 淨土宗 of Buddhism which developed and spread in China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan and has grown to become the largest sect in Buddhism. (An alternative transliteration "Amitābha" is commonly used and preferred by specialists in Buddhism). He is also known as Amitāyus, Buddha of Limitless Life. Amitābha is a Buddha who possesses infinite meritorious qualities; who expounds the dharma in his pure paradise (Sukhāvatī) in the West, hence the name Pure Land.
According to tradition Amitabha was in ancient times a king who, having come in contact with the Buddhist teaching, renounced his throne and became a monk with the name of Dharmakāra. He resolved to become a Buddha and in this way to come into possession of a paradise in which all who call his name might be born into a life of unbounded joy. This is the result of his forty-eight vows 四十八願, the most important of which are the eighteenth 十八願 and nineteenth 十九願, in which he promises not to achieve supreme perfect enlightenment until he have saved all sentient beings in his paradise. In iconographic art, Amitabha is usually portrayed as having two assistants: Avalokiteśvara (in China Guan Yin 觀音 , also considered as his incarnation) who appears on his left and Mahāsthāmaprāpta 勢至 who appears on his right. He is also one of the five buddhas 五佛 of the vajradhātu. The basic doctrine concerning Amitabha and his vows can be found in the Amitābha-sūtra 阿彌陀經 and the Sutra of Infinite Life 無量壽經.
The Chinese version of Amitabha's name, repeated as a prayer, is 阿彌陀佛, (Wade-Giles O1 Mi2 T'o2 Fo2); the Tibetan mantra of Amitabha is 'Om ami dhewa hri'.
See Also
The above article is adapted from from Wikipedia All Wikipedia article text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
Recent related patents from USPTO:
6516300: Computer accessible methods for establishing certifiable informed consent for a procedure
6494704: Mold apparatus
6343243: Method for determining load parameters for a manipulator
6063720: Synthetic garnite tiles and a method of producing the same from beach sand garnet
5999909: Methods for establishing certifiable informed consent for a procedure
5989513: Biologically assisted process for treating sour gas at high pH
5843544: Articles which include a hinged starch-bound cellular matrix
5799282: Methods for establishing certifiable informed consent for a medical procedure
5776388: Methods for molding articles which include a hinged starch-bound cellular matrix
5705203: Systems for molding articles which include a hinged starch-bound cellular matrix
5695712: Method of producing tiles from beach sand garnet
5232848: Basal nutrient medium for cell culture
5096566: Process for reducing the viscosity of heavy hydrocarbon oils
4910733: Rendezvous network protocol with reduced bandwidth and processor time
4371608: Resist system having increased light response
Bibliographic Resources
Updates and comments at Essential Facts blog
Are you interested in Feng Shui?
Price Theory Resources
World Class Photographers
Some philosophical movements
Top PDF and eBook Downloads
|
|
Interesting Links
Sports
Kitchen Knowledge
Hollywood Icons
Mythology
Philosophy
Politics
Retirement
Accounting & Finance
Automobiles
Marketing
Psychology
Academic Subjects
Ancient Greeks
Art & Design
Biology
Biology & Biologists
California
Cats & Dogs
Ethics
Legal Topics
Logic
The Greats
Architectural Dates & Places
* Mathematics & Mathematicians
Medical Update d06
More
Chromosomes and Genomics
Enginering Systems 1
Investments
Transportation
Mathematics
Brilliant Mathematicians
Classic Authors
Fear No Exams
Nexus
Characters & countries
Computers + 2
Science Plus
Science & Computers
Quantum Theory
Home, Site-Map
|
