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Amitabha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (826 words) |
 | Amitabha can be very difficult to tell apart from Shakyamuni, as both are portrayed as possessing all the attributes of a Buddha but have no distinguishing marks. |
| The Tibetan mantra of Amitabha is 'Om ami dhewa hri'. |
| The Buddha Amitabha (literally meaning "Infinite radiance") with his Western paradisiacal "Pure Land" "seems to be understood as the Iranian god of light, equated with the sun" (Foltz, "Religions of the Silk Road"). |
| Buddhist texts - encyclopedia article about Buddhist texts. (5931 words) |
| The Platform Sutra of Huineng might be considered a semi-canonical text, it is one of a very few texts not thought to be spoken by the Buddha that has the label "sutra". |
| The Gandhavyuha sutra is thought to be the source of a cult of Vairocana that later gave rise to the Mahavairocana-adhisambodhi tantra which became one of two central texts in Shingon Buddhism, and is included in the Tibetan canon as a carya class tantra. |
| A number of sutras which focus on the actions which lead to existence in the various spheres of existence, or which expound the doctrine of the twelve links of pratitya-samutpada or dependent-origination. |
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