History of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism

Author: Chen Yangjiong
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Publishing Date: 2000-01-01
Features: The Pure Land thought originates from India. In the later period of the Hinayana Buddhism, Buddha was gradually deified, giving rise to numerous Jataka tales. When Mahayana Buddhism emerged, the "self-benefiting and other-benefiting" vow thought evolved from the Jataka tales, and the passionate vow thought converged into the Pure Land thought. The Amitabha Pure Land emerged within this trend, becoming its culmination and peak. Among the ideal societies depicted in ancient times as transcendent or worldly, the Pure Land is the most spectacular.