Pure Land
A living tradition within Mahāyāna. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Pure Land is a living tradition within Mahāyāna. Also written Jingtu, Amidism.
Origin
Founders named in the sources: Tanluan (c. 488–c. 554), Daochuo (562–645), Shandao (613–682). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. McRae classes Pure Land among the 'modal traditions' of the 7th–8th centuries and names Tanluan, Daochuo and Shandao as key figures; the Pure Land Schools entry additionally names Huiyuan (334–416) and the White Lotus Society on Mount Lu, and Tiantai's Zhiyi (538–597) as incorporating Pure Land practice. No founding year.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Pure Land.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-pure-land.
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.