阿弥陀如来 Amida Buddha 禅奏者・日向真 Zen Music-player Hinata Shin

Music Title : Amida Buddha Zen Music-player : Hinata Shin Please visit my page and find out more about me. website http://hinatashin.net/ Facebook http://is.gd/kYxGxw Amida is one of the loftiest savior figures in Japanese Buddhism, and Amida faith is concerned primarily with the life to come, the life in the beyond. Amida is described in the Amitābha Sūtra 阿彌陀經, the Sutra of Infinite Life 無量壽經, and many other Mahayana texts. Amida is the central deity of Japan’s popular Pure Land (Jōdo 浄土) sects and the ruler of the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss (Gokuraku 極楽; Skt. = Sukhāvatī). To followers of Japan’s Pure Land sects, Amida has eclipsed the Historical Buddha as the most popular divinity in Japan's Mahayana traditions. Even today, the Pure Land sects of Japan are among the nation’s largest and most popular. Amida appears with great frequency in Japanese religious painting and statuary, and is often accompanied by two main attendants in artwork called the Amida Sanzon 阿弥陀三尊 (lit. = Amida Triad), which depicts the three descending from above to welcome the souls of the dying into Amida’s pure land. Amida is also one of the Five Tathagata of Wisdom, and thus appears frequently in the mandala of Japan’s esoteric sects, where he reigns over the western quarter and is sometimes shown atop a peacock or goose. Famous examples of Amida art include Amida & Bosatsu on Clouds at Byōdō-in Temple (near Kyoto) and the Big Buddha statue (in Kamakura). Also, numerous Jōdo Mandala & Jōdo Sanmandara depict Amida's paradise and the non-Tantric deities of Japan's Pure Land sects. Zen is the Japanese variant of Chán, a school of Mahayana Buddhism which strongly emphasizes dhyana concentration-meditation. This gives insight into one's true nature, or the emptiness of inherent existence, which opens the way to a liberated way of living.