Sharing pristine Pure Land with Western cultures

Exploring a little-known jewel of Buddhist artistic expression

Remarkable Buddhist artistic heritage from the Silk Road

Insights of one of the world’s foremost contemporary makers of mandalas

Exploring Japanese “Otsu-e” folk painting

Printed multiple images of Jizo. Japan, Muromachi period (1333–1574), ink on paper. Image courtesy of Sam Fogg, London.   The Buddhist deity Kshitigarbha, or “He who encompasses the

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

Editor’s note: David Brazier is a Buddhist teacher, writer, and psychotherapist. He is President at Instituto Terapia Zen Internacional in Spain and the head of the Amida Order in the United Kingdom.

Editor's note: This feature was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 4, June 2007.   IntroductionMany Asian Mahāyānists have adhered to Pure land Buddhism (淨土) and conceive that it

A tremendous portion of Chinese Buddhism’s rich inheritance is drawn from two traditions. On the one hand we have the deeply devotional Pure Land, where the Other-Power of Amitābha Buddha is invoked t