|
Practical piety
|
Preachers sermonize in the subway, ads herald the imminent return of the Messiah, and missionaries harangue passersby in Times Square. Organized religion is everywhere in New York. If you're pregnant, preparing a trip down the aisle, or on the verge of a nervous breakdown, you may wonder if the truth is really out there.
We asked some religious organizations where they stand, what they think, and what the want you to think.
American Atheists
Founder: Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Date: 1963
Membership: U.S.: 2500. Local affiliates, regional groups, and national conventions.
Top Management: ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)
|
Temples to honor Shin founder
; ...more than a century, the Pure Land teachings of Shinran are...As a popular religion, Pure Land teaching is frequently...through birth into the Pure Land of Amida Buddha. It expresses a natural...through trust or faith in Amida Buddha's Vows determines ...
|
|
The three minds and faith, hope, and love in pure land Buddhism.(ESSAYS)
; ...works toward the pure state, toward nirvana...nirvana. Hence, Pure Land Buddhism is good...In other words, Pure Land Buddhism is good...the common person. Pure Land Buddhism, especially...great compassion of Amida Buddha. This great compassion...embraced by the ...
|
|
Tourists in Paradise: Writing the Pure Land in Medieval Japanese Fiction
; ...of lay and monastic travelers to the Pure Land and other extra-human realms. In many...implications for our understanding of Pure Land-oriented Buddhism in late-medieval Japan...demonstrate the diversity and subjectivity of Pure Land religious experience, and the sometimes...
|
|
|
Further Buddhist Christian Dialogue: A Review Article of Hee Sung Keel's Understanding Shinran: A Dialogical Approach.
; ...of Mahayana Buddhism and Pure Land teaching. The breadth of...background and context of Pure Land teaching out of which Shinran...membutsu (recitation of Amida Buddha's name) threatened the...to realize birth in the Pure Land and ultimate enlightenment...devotion ...
|
|
|
Masao Abe's early spiritual journey and his later philosophy.(PANEL ON MASAO ABE)(Biography)
; ...was running toward Amida Buddha in his struggle...he realized that Amida Buddha was not something...questioned Abe about his Pure Land views again. Gradually...realized that while his Pure Land experience was valid...between the life of Amida's grace and ...
|
|
|
Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha
; ...pp. $32.00, cloth, ISBN 0-8248-2578-0. PURE LAND Buddhism has often been neglected by...Tibetan Buddhism far out-numbered those of Pure Land, even though it has been a commanding...millennium or more. Little by little Pure Land Buddhism has staked out a place for itself...
|
|
Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha.(Book review)
; ...tenuously familiar with Asian religions, Pure Land Buddhism often brings to mind the charismatic...of Honen and Shinran, founders of two Pure Land sects (Jodoshu and Jodo Shinshu) of medieval...introductory text concludes its summary of Pure Land forms by recounting the radical ...
|
|
|
Entering the Pure Land: Hanamatsuri and the Okagura Jodo-iri Ritual of Okumikawa
; While the concept of the Pure Land found its way into many mainstream...re-creation of the act of entering the Pure Land. While the symbolic enactment of...hanamatsuri - kagura - jodo-iri - Pure Land - Shugendo (ProQuest Information...
|
|
|
Pure Lands in Japanese Religion
; ...omitted.) Today the term "Pure Land Buddhism" in the context...refers to the particular pure land inhabited by the Buddha...description of what a pure land is and how one might...is Indian, the term "pure land" is a truncated form...in reference to the pure ...
|
|
The promised land
; ...Yet the Scots author's latest novel, The Pure Land, is infused with Buddhist sensibilities. The Pure Land tells the true story of Thomas Glover...Puccini's opera of the same name. But The Pure Land is also a tale of new beginnings; of the...
|
For more facts and information,
see all results
Find more facts and
information related to the
article "Practical piety".
