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| | Unidentified artist: Amitabha Triad [Korea] (30.76.298) Object Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum ... |
 | | Amitabha's identity is established by his hand gesture, the dharmachakramudra, representing the preaching of the Buddhist law, and by the presence of the bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara (Kwanûm), on his left, and Mahasthamaprapta (Tae Seji), on his right. | | | Amitabha, the most important figure and the subject of veneration and meditation, is depicted larger in size and frontally posed, occupying the apex of the triangle formed by the three deities. | | | The Buddha Amitabha (A'mita) was the focal image of worship in Pure Land Buddhism, a devotional sect that enjoyed great popularity in Korea during the Koryô dynasty. |
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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/07/eak/hod_30.76.298.htm
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| | Amitabha |
| | Amitabha is at the center of the worship of the Pure Land school of Chinese and Japanese Buddhism. | | | Through his meditative practice he fulfilled his vow and became Buddha Amitabha, ruler of Sukhavati. | | | He resolved to become a buddha and took forty-eight vows obliging him to sustain beings on the path to enlightenment. |
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/amitabha.html
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| | Deities |
| | Some well-known Buddhist deities are Amitabha (Opameh, in Tibetan), his emanation Chenrezi (Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit) and Tara, the female bodhisattva (who is also a Buddha) called upon particularly in times of distress. | | | According to one scripture, Buddha Speaks of the Amitabha Sutra, Shariputra is told that there are innumerable Buddhas [Buddhas mentioned.] There is a convention, however, in which there are considered to be five transcendent Buddha Families. | | | Similar to the devotion given Buddha Amitabha is the movement which originated in the teachings of Nichiren who lived in 13th century Japan. |
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http://www.khandro.net/deities.htm
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| | Amitabha Sutra - Part III |
| | Amitabha Buddha himself, his disciples, and the Bodhisattvas who follow him, are all within the causal ground of Amitabha, created by his vows and his actions. | | | When Amitabha was Dharmakara, the king of vows, he made a vow that the life spans of both Buddhas and humans in his realm would be infinite. | | | Thus, after describing Amitabha Buddha himself, his disciples and the Bodhisattvas who follow him, the sutra says, "The Land of Ultimate Bliss is complete with all these adornments and virtues." Amitabha can enable those who have faith and vows and recite his name to become complete with all these virtues too, from moment to moment. |
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http://www.buddhistdoor.com/bdoor/archive/sutra_comm/amitabha/amitsutra3.htm
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| | Instructions on the Amitabha Sadhana |
| | On Amitabha's left is Vajrapani, who is the embodiment of the strength and power of all the buddhas. | | | Déwachen has this quality because when Amitabha practised on the spiritual path he made the commitment that he would not achieve buddhahood unless it was possible that every being who wished to be born in his buddha-realm could be born there merely due to their wishes and prayers. | | | The first verse of 4 shlokas (page 1b in the Samye-Ling translation ‘Amitabha Prayers’, 1987 edition) is a supplication to Amitabha, followed by a verse to Chenrezig, Vajrapani and their vast entourage of bodhisattvas and arhats. |
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http://www.quietmountain.org/links/teachings/amitabha/amitabha.htm
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| | Simhanada--- Buddha Amitabha and Pure Land Buddhism |
| | Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land is a realm of enlightened, unworldly bliss. | | | Before Amitabha Buddha attained Buddhahood, he was known as the King Dharmakara. | | | Therefore the Buddha Amitabha vowed to create a world in which we could be reborn into, and this world of bliss would be conductive to attaining enlightenment. |
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http://www.simhas.org/pureland.html
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| | Amitabha Buddha |
| | This is the Buddha Land of Amitabha Buddha. | | | Amitabha is one of the most popular and well-known Buddha in China. | | | Therefore by reciting Amitabha Buddha's name, Buddhist followers hope that they will be born in this Pure Land after their lives on earth. |
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http://web.singnet.com.sg/~alankhoo/Amitabha.htm
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| | About Amitabha |
| | Before his guru, Dharmakara took 48 vows, including the vow to create, upon attaining Buddhahood, a pureland in which all who turned to him with complete faith and trust would be reborn and lead a life of peace and happiness until their final entry into nirvana. | | | As the sign of his ability to fulfill the wishes of all beings through his skillful means and transcendental wisdom that are inseparable from one another, he is holding a begging bowl entirely filled with nectar, resting on top of his hands whicha re in meditative equipoise. | | | Because of his power and ability to illuminate all-pervading purelands of the ten directions, Amitabha is also known as Boundless Light and as Limitless Radiance. |
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http://www.drukpa.org/amitabha/about_amitabha.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Buddhism |
| | The Dalai Lama, residing in the great monastery at Lhasa, passes for the incarnation of Amitabha, the Buddha of the Sukhavati paradise. | | | Around this supreme Buddha dwelling in highest heaven, were grouped a countless number of bodhisattvas, destined in future ages to become human Buddhas for the sake of erring man. To raise oneself to the rank of bodhisattva by meritorious works was the ideal now held out to pious souls. | | | In place of Nirvana, Sukhavati became the object of pious longing, the heaven of sensuous pleasures, where Amitabha, an emanation of the eternal Buddha, reigned. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03028b.htm
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| | Amitabha Sutra - Part V |
| | Fifth, by invoking the name of one Buddha, Amitabha, we are protected and kept in mind by all the Buddhas. | | | Furthermore, when Pure Land practitioners recite the Buddha-name with faith and vows, they are gathering in all the virtues of Amitabha Buddha and making them their own. | | | Later on in the text, Sakyamuni Buddha speaks of "the inconceivable virtues of all the Buddhas" and also "my inconceivable virtues." Here Sakyamuni Buddha is saying that all the Buddhas, as well as he himself, all consider Amitabha's virtues as their own. |
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http://www.buddhistdoor.com/bdoor/archive/sutra_comm/amitabha/amitsutra5.htm
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| | On Chanting "Amitabha" |
| | The practice of chanting "Amitabha" is consistent with the profound philosophy of Buddhism. | | | The most popular practice adopted by Buddhists is the chanting of "Amitabha," the sacred name of the Buddha of the Western Pureland. | | | One may chant "Namo Amitabha Buddha" (meaning homage to the Amitabha Buddha, and the name "Amitabha" means boundless light and infinite life), "Amitabha Buddha," or simply, but with equal reverence, "Amitabha." As time goes by, our hands will slowly be untied from holding the big bags of sorrows on our backs. |
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http://www.yogichen.org/efiles/chantami.html
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| | Amitabha -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | As related in the Sukhaiuu (the fundamental scripture of the Pure Land sects), many ages ago a monk named Dharmakara made a number of vows, the 18th of which promised that, on his attaining buddhahood, all who believed in him and who called upon his name would be born... | | | Pure Land schools believe that rebirth in Amitabha's Western Paradise, Sukhavati (known as the Pure Land, or Pure Realm), is ensured all those who invoke Amitabha's... | | | devotional cult of the Buddha Amitabha (“the Buddha of Infinite Light”). |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9007190
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| | Amitabha Buddha |
| | Therefore, in addition to my faith in Amitabha, I believe that every sincere Buddhist devotee should have a meditation practice if he is mentally equipped to do so. | | | Maitreya, waiting in the Tusita heaven until it is his time to come into the world, is obviously not--now or for thousands of years to come--involved in the unfolding destiny of the world. | | | With the appearance of the three sutras which tell the story of Amitabha Buddha and the development of the trikaya doctrine which I discussed in my last talk, a purely devotional sect of Buddhism not only became a possibility, but eventually a reality. |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/ibmc/ibmc2/tabha2.html
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| | Amitabha Pureland Web (Australia) - FAQs on Buddhism |
| | It is precisely because of the Self-Nature Amitabha that the practitioner must recite the name of Buddha Amitabha of the West seeking rebirth in the Pure Land - so as to achieve the Self-Nature Amitabha through gradual cultivation. | | | Even when those who have committed cardinal transgressions achieve rebirth through ten recitations, such rebirth is due to their reciting the Buddha's name with a pure mind, thus eliciting a response from Amitabha Buddha. | | | It is because the Mind-only Pure Land exists that we are reborn in the Pure Land of the West. |
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http://www.amtbweb.org/tchet262.htm
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| | Sukhavativyuha Sutra |
| | And that Bhagavat Amitabha, the Tathagata, holy and fully enlightened, overshadowing that mass of Sravakas and that mass of Bodhisattvas, is seen, illuminating all quarters. | | | At that moment this speech was spoken by the blessed Ananda, and immediately that Amitabha, the Tathagata, holy and fully enlightened, let such a ray of light go out of the palm of his own hand, that even the most distant Buddha country was shining with the great splendor. | | | From the place of the Tathagata Vaisaradyaprapta, sixty-nine kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhavati, in order to see the Tathagata Amitabha, to bow before him, to worship him, to ask questions of him, and to consult him. |
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http://web.mit.edu/stclair/www/larger.html
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| | Evening Recitations |
| | Amitabha Buddha, the Bodhisattvas Kuan Yin and Ta Shih Chih, and the Complete Assembly of the Holy Saints emit abiding illumination in welcome and reach out their hands to raise and guide us to the Lofty Pavilions where Pennants and Flags fly, rare Incense burns and Heavenly Musicians play. | | | The Power of Amitabha Buddha's Compassionate and Merciful Vow is my example, and He feels concern for us and sends us His Divine Protections as we sit in Right Meditation. | | | For this reason is this Buddha called Amitabha. |
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http://www.dragonflower.org/evening.html#p.l.text
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| | The Active Aspect of Chanting Amitabha |
| | Besides, Amitabha Buddha is everyone's primordial Buddha nature; in other words, we are originally like that. | | | However, if we can start with chanting Amitabha regularly, then when the pure thought of Amitabha, Amitabha, is continuously ever present, we might be able to devote fully to the practice of meditation, Chan or Tantra. | | | When you chant Amitabha, you are gradually connecting yourself with Buddhas and are also gradually obtaining such blessings. |
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http://www.yogichen.org/efiles/mbk19.html
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| | THE BUDDHA SPEAKS OF AMITABHA SUTRA |
| | Shariputra, since Amitabha became a Buddha, ten kalpas have passed. | | | Moreover, Shariputra, that Buddha has measureless, limitless asamkheyas of Sound-Hearer | | | Amitabha, so too in the East does Akshobya Buddha, Sumeru Likeness Buddha, Great Sumeru |
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http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/3570/sutra02.htm
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| | IMC library |
| | Mind-Seal of the Buddhas: Commentary on the Amitabha Sutra | | | Mind and the way, The; Buddhist reflections on Life |
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| | Amitabha's View on Flickr - Photo Sharing! |
| | Sarah and the kids bought me a statue of Amitabha Buddha for Father's day. | | | Appropriately, I've placed the statue at the end of the garden - a position that catches the first and last of the day's sun. |
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/kev/19561154
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| | Daily Pure Land |
| | This is why this Tathagata is called Amitabha, 'Measureless Light.' And, Sariputra, this Tathagata is surrounded by an immeasurable assembly of disciples, who are all pure Arhats and whose number is impossible to count. | | | May we be welcomed into the Pure Land by Amitabha Buddha when we depart this world. | | | I vow to see Buddha Amitabha and the Bodhisattvas of |
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http://www.cloudwater.org/dailypureland.html
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| | Amitabha |
| | You have Amitabha in two aspects as the formation of | | | Buddhist faith is lacking in this, that its devotees think of Amitabha | | | "By Amitabha we understand the eternal, infinite light, the |
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http://www.russbo.com/Foundations/amitabha.htm
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| | Earth--Just a Testing Ground? - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site |
| | Followers of the Pure Land sects of Buddhism in China and Japan believe that by endlessly reciting "Amitabha," the name of the Buddha of Unlimited Light, they will be reborn in the Pure Land, or Western Paradise, where they will live in supreme happiness. | | | Interestingly, the Bible, the most widely translated and distributed holy book in the world, does not present the earth as a place to escape from, a stepping-stone of sorts. | | | Muslims, for example, hope to go to a heavenly paradise. |
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http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2000/10/1/article_01.htm
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| | Consecration of the Amitabha Stupa at Kunzang Palyul Choling - Sedona - Tibetan Buddhist Center |
| | Consecration of the Amitabha Stupa at Kunzang Palyul Choling - Sedona - Tibetan Buddhist Center | | | There were many processions around the Stupa during the ceremony, accompanied by the traditional blowing of a conch shell: | | | After construction of the Amitabha Stupa was complete, Tulku Tsag-ngag Rinpoche returned to Sedona to lead a three-day ceremony to consecrate the Stupa at the end of July, 2004. |
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http://www.stupas.org/The_36__Amitabha_Stupa_Project/Consecration/consecration.html
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| | Amitabha Mukerjee: Publications |
| | Achla M. Raina, Amitabha Mukherjee, Pankaj Goyal, Pushpraj Shukla A unified computational lexicon for Hindi-English code-switching Proceedings International Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON), Hyderabad, India, December 19-22, 2004. | | | Amitabha Mukerjee, Himanshu Gupta, Kumar Gaurav, Achla M Raina Incorporating Pragmatic-Semantic Domain Lexicons for Converting Arithmetic Word Problems into Symbolic Equations Proceedings International Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON), Hyderabad, India, December 19-22, 2004. | | | Amitabha Mukerjee, Achla M Raina, Kumar Kapil, Pankaj Goyal, Pushpraj Shukla: Universal Networking Language - A Tool for Language-Independent Semantics?, Convergences 03, International Conference on the Convergence of Knowledge, Culture, Language and Information Technologies, Library of Alexandria, December 2003, Alexandria, Egypt. |
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| | Amitabha on Flickr - Photo Sharing! |
| | Sign up for a free account, or sign in (if you're already a member). | | | This Amitabha Thankga was generously gifted to KTC Minneapolis. |
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/merjess/8624040
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| | CD Baby: DAVID BARRETT/SCOTT MATTHEWS: Amitabha |
| | The music was written and recorded over the last two years in several different studios, including Loreena McKennitt's studio in Stratford Ontario, where Scott put the finishing touches on the final mastering stage. | | | Reunited in 2002, David Barrett and Scott Matthews began work on "Amitabha", a cd of instrumental compositions reflecting their mutual interest in esoteric music and composers. | | | David Barrett went on the play with many Canadian bands and artists, (including "Platinum Blonde", "no.9") and Scott Matthews released two successful 12" singles in the mid-eighties, "Boats In Rivers" and "Role Boys", both received CFNY (Toronto) music awards nominations. |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/barrettd3
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| | Amitabha Buddhist Hospice Auckland |
| | Amitabha Hospice is now at 44 Powell St. Avondale | | | We need VOLUNTEERS to help people at home - You CAN make a difference! |
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http://www.amitabhahospice.org
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| | Karma Thegsum Choling Minneapolis » Blog Archive » Amitabha |
| | This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 at 11:08 am and is filed under General. | | | This is a photo of the Amitabha Thankga so generously gifted to KTC Minneapolis. | | | Karma Thegsum Choling Minneapolis » Blog Archive » Amitabha |
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http://www.ktcminneapolis.org/ktcblog/2005/04/06/amitabha
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| | Amitabha Choudhury. Professional Resume |
| | Unless otherwise stated, Ownership or similar rights in all material presented on the site, including graphical images, is held by Amitabha Choudhury. | | | More recently I have worked in a varied range of urban design projects in Australia including development control plans, public domain improvements, town centres, urban design controls and master plans and evaluation of transport corridors. |
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http://achoudhury.netfirms.com
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| | Amitabha Roy, Boston College |
| | "Symmetry Breaking and Fault Tolerance in Boolean Satisfiability" by Amitabha Roy, PhD. | | | Fall 2005: Discrete Mathematics, Computer Science II - access via Webct (BC only) | | | "Symmetry Breaking Predicates for Search Problems" by James Crawford, Matt Ginsberg, Eugene M. Luks, Amitabha Roy, KR 96. |
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http://www.cs.bc.edu/~aroy
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| | PUBLICATIONS: Amitabha Mukerjee |
| | Modelling of Inexact 2-D Shapes using Real-coded Genetic Algorithms, | | | Mukerjee, Amitabha, Benson, Richard C., and Ballard, Dana, 1984 | | | Mukerjee, Amitabha, Sanjay Sharma, and Ram Bhushan Agrawal, 1995 |
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http://www.cs.albany.edu/~amit/refs.html
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