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[ uh-mi-tah-buh ]
noun
- a Buddha who rules over paradise, enjoying endless and infinite bliss.
Amitabha
/ ˌˈɑə /
noun
- Buddhism (in Pure Land sects) a Bodhisattva who presides over a Pure Land in the west of the universe Japanese nameAmida
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
It is a term of later Buddhism and has been personified as Buddha, or Amita.
The invocation of the all-saving name of Buddha is a favorite tenet of the Lotus or Pure Land sect, so popular in China and Japan.
That mendicant does right who does not think: 'People should salute me'; who, though despised by the world, yet cherishes no ill-will towards it.8 "That mendicant does right to whom omens, meteors, dreams, and signs are things abolished; he is free from all their evils.9 ", the unbounded light, is the source of wisdom, of virtue, of Buddhahood.
However, the repetition of the name Buddha is meritorious only if thou speak it with such a devout attitude of mind as will cleanse thy heart and attune thy will to do works of righteousness.
The Blessed One after having explained his doctrine of , the immeasurable light which makes him who receives it a Buddha, looked into the heart of his disciple and saw still some doubts and anxieties.
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