Why the Buddha revealed infinite light to our world

A summary of the core teaching of pristine Pure Land

How the the first component of deep faith relates to sentient beings' salvation

Explaining the Deep Mind, the second in the Threefold State of Mind

2016's SPECIAL ISSUE on Chinese Buddhism in different cultures and contexts!

Sharing pristine Pure Land with Western cultures

Theravada monk BD Dipananda embraces the Buddhist delights of Japan

Thoughts on establishing and cultivating the Sincere Mind

Exploring Japanese “Otsu-e” folk painting

Pure Land practitioners are puzzled by a moral dilemma. What is it?

A glimpse of the sacred intent and presence of Amitabha

Detail of the Buddha Amitabha with hands in the meditation gesture, Kotoku-in, Kamakura, Japan. 13th century, bronze. Photograph by Meher McArthur. The hand gestures, or mudra, assumed by figures o

Fourteen years ago, José Cabezón argued brilliantly that “theology” should no longer be a dirty word in Buddhism (despite being derived from the Greek word theos, or “God”). He proposed that Buddhist

A Brief History of the Formation of the Land of Bliss   According to the Infinite Life Sutra, in the era of Lokeshvararaja Tathagata, there was once a king who left his royal family and became