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Lisa’s Wanderings Around Japan/ Ushiku Buddha: Finding one’s way to the Pure Land in massive Ibaraki statue
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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Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land
2008 32COM 8B.24 - Examination of nomination of natural, mixed and cultural proprerties to the World Heritage List - Hiraizumi - Cultural Landscape Associated with Pure Land Buddhist Cosmology (JAPAN) ...
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Buddhist sect offers immersive CGI imagery of the Pure Land
TSU--For a glimpse of nirvana, the head temple of the Takada school of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sect is offering visitors the chance to experience the Pure Land blooming with lotus flowers.
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Nagasaki's Obon: A Time for Remembrance
Obon is a summertime ritual when Japanese people welcome ancestors' spirits home from the Buddhist Pure Land. The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light ...
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JAPAN'S RELIGION.; The Rev. Dr. George William Knox's New Book on the Development of Buddhism and Shintoism.*
Every student of religion knows that there are in Japan three religions -- Shintoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. "Shinto," says Dr. Griffis, "furnishes theology, Confucianism anthropology ...