Many people in the West interpret Buddhism as a path of meditation leading to enlightenment. What many may not know is that this interpretation differs vastly from its practice in East Asia. I have ...

While at their core the two movements were very different, on the surface the rise of Pure Land Buddhism in Japan bears some striking parallels to the rise of Puritanism in the West. Between the ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

The four Pure Land gardens of Hiraizumi, three focused on the sacred mountain Mount Kinkeisan, exemplify a fusion between the ideals of Pure Land Buddhism and indigenous Japanese concepts relating to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information A scholarly journal devoted to Buddhism and Christianity and their historical and contemporary interrelationships, ...