Buddhism in China It is difficult to 
.... the 402-416 CE period when Hui-yuan founded the White Lotus Society of Mount Lu and began developing the intellectual basis for the Pure
Land sect of Buddhism. ....
(466
2
)
The Buddhist Tradition in India, China, and Japan: A Review
.... Chapter 11, "Amida and the Pure
Land," compiled by Tsunoda, de Bary, and Hakeda, deals with the Japanese form of the Pure
Land sect of Buddhism. ....
(1608
6
)
Budhist Approach to Salvation
.... say that doctrines of the Pure
Land sect were partly a response to the desperate circumstances of the poor in the Japanese medieval period: "[T]he sense of ....
(2517
10
)
The history of Hinduism
.... The Pure
Land sect appealed to the poor in the Japanese medieval period, who saw in Buddhism access to "salvation through faith alone" (Tsunoda, et al. 182). ....
(1512
6
)
Tradition & Change in India, China, Japan
.... The T'en-tai
sect appealed especially to scholars; the Pure
Land sect, which developed many features parallel to those of Christianity, appealed to the ....
(800
3
)
Two Sculptures of the Buddha
.... Swann 95). In religious art the impetus for change was found in the rise of the Jodo, or Pure
Land,
sect of Buddhism. This form ....
(2240
9
)
Property Rights in Islam Under Islamic law, own
.... program that supercedes these more traditional means of
land ownership. Saudi Arabia's population is 90 percent Muslim Arab of the Wahhabi
sect, a branch of ....
(1109
4
)
The Florida Everglades National Park
.... 1996 Sept. 4:
Sect. A:1. 9. Everglades case heads back to court. National Parks. .... 12. Levinson, M.; Katel, P. Not so sweet in sugar
land. Newsweek. 1991 Oct. ....
(2992
12
)
From Beruit to Jerusalem
.... the variant factions most operative in the ongoing struggle for
land and dominance .... The Maronites, a Christian Orthodox
sect, serve as the Christian majority in ....
(2628
11
)
17th Century Colonial American Writers
.... to the New World and taking part in the development of that frontier
land. .... but rather the Christian view of the world as understood by his own particular
sect. ....
(1599
6
)
Women in Japanese Religion
.... One of these emphasized the Pure
Land, or Western Paradise, of the Buddha Amida. .... Another
sect, the Lotus Sutra, was known by the name of its founder, Nichiren. ....
(2921
12
)
Nasir-i Khusraw's Life & Travels
.... even more devoted to the "relentless persecution" of the Ismaili
sect than their .... Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society focused on the region known as the Holy
Land. ....
(4445
18
)
Travel Book of Nasir-i Khusraw
.... even more devoted to the "relentless persecution" of the Ismaili
sect than their .... Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society focused on the region known as the Holy
Land. ....
(4445
18
)
An Assessment of Mormonism as a Cult I. INTRODUC
.... No other Christian
sect in the United States has been the focus of such persistent attack (Hall 1989). .... Hall, JR Gone From the Promised
Land. ....
(2090
8
)
Mormons as a Cult
.... No other Christian
sect in the United States has been the focus of such persistent attack (Hall 89). .... Hall, JR Gone From the Promised
Land. ....
(2136
9
)
ANSWERS FOR THE ARAB WORLD
.... "The key categories of the analysis of Middle Eastern mosaic societies have been
sect, tribe, ethnic group ....
Land, elsewhere, is the key to wealth and power. ....
(1637
7
)
The Sasanian Empire
.... rebellion, combined with the annihilation of the Mazdakite communistic
sect that had had ....
Land was to be taxed equally everywhere, and funds that had previously ....
(3507
14
)
Mesopotamian History
.... rebellion, combined with the annihilation of the Mazdakite communistic
sect that had had ....
Land was to be taxed equally everywhere, and funds that had previously ....
(3683
15
)
Middle East Biblical Prophecy
.... dry the
land up, will spurn idolatrous sacrifices, and will despoil the
land of Israel .... which is an attribute of the fact that the new Jewish
sect developed a ....
(4773
19
)
The Early History of Boston's North End
.... settler in the area from across the Atlantic the Protestant religious
sect, the Puritans .... is now Boston's North End was simply a point of
land extending into a ....
(1495
6
)
SHIISM IN PAKISTAN This research traces the pol
.... Lapidus says the Nizaris, another Shiite
sect, whose imam in the 20th century was to be the fabulously .... Quadrus, Syed A. Sindh The
Land of Indus Civilization. ....
(1775
7
)
Buddhism & Islam
.... The
sect was consistent "with the indigenous [near-mystical] Taoist tradition; at the same time it was a .... Pure
Land Buddhism is Korea's mainstream religion today ....
(3178
13
)
Ethnography of the Emirate of Qatar
.... (Parker, 1999, p. 7). The
land is stony .... Most native Qataris belong to the Islamic Wahhabi
sect and the country is almost universally Islamic - including the ....
(4857
19
)
Islamic States and Rulership
.... ruled from 969 to 1171 by Fatimids of the dissident Ismaili
sect, North Africa .... autumn of 1097, they had before them a politically fragmented
land, where the ....
(1501
6
)
European Colonialism in the Middle Ages
.... a system of apartheid, with the conquering Europeans the favored
sect. It would seem to follow that the history of Europeans in the Holy
Land would parallel ....
(5484
22
)
ISLAMIC STATES AND RULERSHIP IN 13TH AND 14TH CENTURIES
.... ruled from 969 to 1171 by Fatimids of the dissident Ismaili
sect, North Africa .... autumn of 1097, they had before them a politically fragmented
land, where the ....
(1486
6
)
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
.... have been successfully won by claimants contending that poisoned air,
land, and water .... We only need look at the Mormon
sect in Utah where multiple marriages for ....
(1630
7
)
Features of Saudi Culture
.... first fact about Saudi Arabia is that it is a desert
land, originally peopled .... The puritanical Wahhabi
sect of Islam remains a dominant influence in state and ....
(2436
10
)
Buddhist Sangha
.... Buddhist Sangha appears to have defined the development of the
sect in these .... that, over time, royal patronage equaled such phenomena as royal
land grants for ....
(3856
15
)
Max Weber and Religion
.... He persists in the mission to the Promised
Land in their behalf, with the result that the Pentateuch .... There also emerged a third and more mystical
sect, the Sufi ....
(2495
10
)
