There are many kinds of Pure Land thought in Chinese Buddhism,Amitabha Pure Land thought has been the mainstream in China,Eastern Jin Dynasty Hui Suan masters from the beginning until modern Venerable Yin Guang,etc.,through the ages,people suggested many different views about of Amitabha Pure Land thought,the practice patterns was recited the Buddha Name, meditated or contained these two approaches.Tai-xu and Yin Shun is the Buddhism of the famous reformer,they have a great impact at Taiwan''s Buddhist community, and their reform concepts were because the decline of Buddhism in China and Buddhism did not care about the real world. They created a Pure Land in the proposition, apparently to different from the Pure Land sect of traditional Chinese.So the focus for the discussion of this article is what their Pure Land thought?
This article from the Tai-xu and Yin Shun Amitabha, Tusita, Eastern Pure Land thought in their works,to study both the overall study of Pure Land thought,and then concluded with another concept of Pure Land practice differs,and the two background of their time,including social and cultural factors,differences in Pure Land thought for comparison. Finally the two and the Pure Land tradition of creative ideas,or inherit any new relationship.
Tai-xu in Amitabha view depends largely on the traditional Chinese Buddhism,and from selective integration of the western scientific theory of the essence to show that utterance.Yin Shun,returned to India to explore the ideological correctness of Buddhism and to take the ideas of Nagarjuna etc.,and to clarified people''s dharma of concept and gave them the right way of practice.
Their Eastern and Maitreya Pure Land ideology have the relationship between inheritances, also focuses on real-life applications, as the identity of ordinary people, with compassion to help others,and focus on coming of Maitreya to build the world.When they were talking about the other Pure Land,all already implicit in the Pure Land concept which will play a variety of Pure Land thought suitable for human characteristics, into the Worldly Pure Land theory. Therefore, the core point, although an advocate Buddha-nature point of view, another emphasis on practice Prajna wisdom, but for all living beings should rise Bodhicitta, Bodhisattva practice is the most important key points of building a worldly Pure Land is the same.
