Common Buddhism Questions

Are the Mind-only Pure Land and the self-nature Amitabha the same as Western Pure Land and Amitabha in the Pure Land?

What is the meaning of the statement: "birth [in the Pure Land] is certainly birth, but returning [to the Pure land] is, in fact, not returning?"

Some people say: "To see the Buddha is to see the Buddha of the Self-Mind, not the Buddha of the Western Pure Land." This being the case, at the time of death, is it the Buddha of the Self-Mind who appears, or is it Buddha Amitabha who comes to receive and guide us?

Can we also clear away bad karma if we invoke the great name of Amitabha with a scattered mind?

If we make vows now, it is not correct that all we can talk about is the life to come, not this present life?

If Amitabha's Pure land is a hundred billions worlds away from here, how can we reborn there instantly?

Common Pure Land questions



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