An essay about Amida Pureland Buddhism: a practical approach to self-power and other-power.
Buddhism Is a Religion by Dharmavidya Brazier, Amida Trust
A short essay distancing Pureland from the current popular tendency to downplay the religious or spiritual dimension of the Buddha's message. Pureland is a religion in the truest sense.
Continuous Prayer by Dharmavidya, Amida Trust
Buddhism is not just about escape from suffering; it is about living a worthwhile life, which is a life in the presence: a life of prayer. Prayer is what transforms ordinary - and often difficult - experience into the path.
Dharmavidya writes about the skandhas
We believe that the skandhas are not simply value neutral components of the human somato-psychological organism. They are the things that Buddha hoped to emancipate us from. We also think that they constitute a cycle, not just a list, and that this cycle maps directly onto the cycle of dependent origination...
