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 the Pure Land school, for example, Guanyin is frequently depicted on the left of Amitabha Buddha, while on the buddha's right is another bodhisattva called Mahasthamaprapta ( Dàshìzhì ).

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.

Pure fire ( the stars ) is in the heavens.

Pure water is neutral with respect to acidity or basicity because the concentration of hydroxide ions is always equal to the concentration of hydronium ions.

Acadia is organized into four faculties: Arts, Pure & Applied Science, Professional Studies and Theology.

The simplest alkene is ethylene ( C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 4 </ sub >), which has the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) name ethene.

Uncharacteristically, Jefferson's first two recordings from this session were gospel songs (" I Want to be like Jesus in my Heart " and " All I Want is that Pure Religion "), released under the name Deacon L. J. Bates.

The standard nomenclature of chemical substances is set by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ).

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

* Pure water is nearly colorless.

Pure carnivores such as ferets lack β-carotene 15, 15 '- monooxygenase and cannot convert any carotenoids to retinals at all ( resulting in carotenes not being a form of vitamin A for this species ); while cats can convert a trace of β-carotene to retinol, although the amount is totally insufficient for meeting their daily retinol needs.

Ignored by many in " critical realist " circles, however, is that Kant's immediate impetus for writing his " Critique of Pure Reason " was to address problems raised by David Hume's skeptical empiricism which, in attacking metaphysics, employed reason and logic to argue against the knowability of the world and common notions of causation.

As developed in Hayek's The Pure Theory of Capital, the goal is the preservation of the unique information contained in the price itself.

Pure European population is not known because the country combines mestizos with whites.

Pure gold is too soft for day-to-day monetary use and is typically hardened by alloying with copper, silver or other base metals.

Pure gold is designated as 24k.

Pure Motor Hemiparesis, a form of hemiparesis characterized by sided weakness in the leg, arm, and face, is the most commonly diagnosed form of hemiparesis.

Pure honey is considered kosher even though it is produced by a flying insect, a nonkosher creature ; other products of nonkosher animals are not kosher.

Pure hydrocodone is a more strictly controlled Schedule II drug and sold by compounding pharmacies.

Pure iron is soft ( softer than aluminium ), but is unobtainable by smelting.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC, or ) is an international federation of National Adhering Organizations that represents chemists in individual countries.

The section Paralogisms of Pure Reason is an implicit critique of Descartes ' idealism.

Central to the Pure Theory of Law is the notion of a ' basic norm ( Grundnorm )'— a hypothetical norm, presupposed by the jurist, from which in a hierarchy all ' lower ' norms in a legal system, beginning with constitutional law, are understood to derive their authority or ' bindingness '.