In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

In Pure Land Buddhism, Guanyin is described as the " Barque of Salvation ".

Along with Amitabha Buddha and the bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta, She temporarily liberates beings out of the Wheel of Samsara into the Pure Land, where they will have the chance to accrue the necessary merit so as to be a Buddha in one lifetime.

Category: Pure Land Buddhism

* 1175: Hōnen Shōnin ( Genkū ) founds the Jōdo shū ( Pure Land ) sect of Buddhism.

* The Pure Land school of Buddhism founds a monastery upon the top of Mount Lushan.

* The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year.

* Kuya, Japanese monk of Pure Land Buddhism ( b. 903 ).

* Hōnen, founder of Jodo Shu, a branch of Pure Land Buddhism ( b. 1133 )

* Hōnen, Japanese founder of Pure Land Buddhism ( d. 1212 )

* Shinran Shonin, Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism

* Kuya, Japanese monk of Pure Land Buddhism ( d. 972 ).

In the United States, Pure Land priests of the Japanese diaspora serve a role very similar to Protestant ministers of the Christian tradition.

Mandalas have sometimes been used in Pure Land Buddhism to graphically represent Pure Lands, based on descriptions found in the Larger Sutra and the Contemplation Sutra.

Instead, it provides a visual pictorial of the Pure Land texts, and is used as a teaching aid.

The monks of the Buddhist True Pure Land sect formed numerous Ikkō-ikki, the most successful of which, in Kaga Province, remained independent for nearly 100 years.

Amitābha is the principal buddha in the Pure Land sect, a branch of Buddhism practiced mainly in East Asia, while in Vajrayana Amitābha is known for his longevity attribute and the aggregate of distinguishing ( recognition ) and the deep awareness of individualities.

In the versions of the sutra widely known in China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan, Dharmakāra's eighteenth vow was that any being in any universe desiring to be born into Amitābha's Pure Land and calling upon his name even as few as ten times will be guaranteed rebirth there.

This openness and acceptance of all kinds of people has made the Pure Land belief one of the major influences in Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Pure Land Buddhism seems to have first become popular in northwest India / Pakistan and Afghanistan, from where it spread to Central Asia and China.

Through his efforts, Amitābha created the " Pure Land " ( 净土, Chinese: jìngtŭ ; Japanese: jōdo ; Vietnamese: tịnh độ ) called Sukhāvatī ( Sanskrit: " possessing happiness ").

After the Amitabha doctrine, one can come to paradise ( in the Pure Land of Amitābha ), if they visualize at their death Amitābha in the heaven ( sun ) over their head ( western horizon ), think his name as a mantra and leave the body as a soul through the crown chakra.

Khalistan movement refers to a global political secessionist movement which seeks to create a separate Sikh state, called Khālistān (, " The Land of the Pure ") in the Punjab region of South Asia.

Many Taoists venerate Laozi as Daotsu the founder of the school of Dao, the Daode Tianjun in the Three Pure Ones, one of the eight elders transformed from Taiji in the Chinese creation myth.

following his stay there he studied Pure Land Buddhism under Shōkū, whereafter he joined the Daruma school of Nōnin by then led by Kakuan.

In Japan, however, Pure Land Buddhism also became an independent school in its own right as can be seen in the Jōdo-shū and Jōdo Shinshū schools.

According to tradition, the second patriarch of the Pure Land school, Shandao, is said to have practiced this day and night without interruption, each time emitting light from his mouth.

The Ōbaku Zen school retains many Chinese features such as mindfulness of Amitābha Buddha through recitation, and recitation of the Pure Land sūtras.

The Japanese monks Gyonen of the Pure Land Buddhism and Zenshu and Joto of the Faziang school were also influenced by him.

However, in his extensive scholarly works, composed as commentaries and essays, he embraced the whole spectrum of the Buddhist teachings which were received in Korea, including such schools as Pure Land, Nirvana, Sanlun and Tiantai ( Lotus Sūtra school ).

During the Kamakura Period, the Tendai school used its patronage to try to oppose the growth of rival factions — particularly the Nichiren school, which began to grow in power among the merchant middle class, and the Pure Land school, which eventually came to claim the loyalty of many of the poorer classes.

, also known as Shin Buddhism, is a school of Pure Land Buddhism.

From that time on, Shinran considered himself, even after exile, a devout disciple of Hōnen rather than a founder establishing his own, distinct Pure Land school.

唯識 ; Weishi ; " consciousness-only "; the East Asian form of Yogācāra ), Jeongto ( Pure Land ), and the indigenous Korean Beopseong (" dharma-nature school ").

1175: Hōnen introduces the Jōdō ( Pure Land ) school to Japan.

Nianfo ( Chinese: 念佛, pinyin: niànfó ; Japanese: 念仏 nembutsu ; Korean: 염불 yeombul ; Vietnamese: niệm Phật ), is a term commonly seen in the Pure Land school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

In 1995, after Hastings ' company Pure Software was acquired for $ 750 million two years later, his personal wealth allowed him to pursue his passion for school reform.

Phoenix Hall in the garden of Byōdō-in, Kyoto, is a temple of the Amitābha or school of Pure Land Buddhism ( 1053 )

The eighteenth vow is among the most important as it forms a basic tenet of the Pure Land school.

The CACR involves students and professors from four departments at the school: Combinatorics & Optimization, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Pure Math.

Mahāsthāmaprāpta is one of the oldest bodhisattvas and is regarded as powerful, especially in the Pure Land school, where he takes an important role in the long Sutra of Infinite Life.

While still in high school in 1970, Wright released the sensual " Pure Love " at the age of sixteen.

; Kun Kang: A male model who attends Pure Water High School who is usually either gone from school in a photo shoot, found sleeping in class, or otherwise hanging around his best friend Ga-Woon Kim who he has known since junior high school.