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.

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* 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.

Doctrinally similar to the Perfection of Wisdom texts, another major theme is the Buddhafield ( Buddha-kṣetra ), which was influential on Pure Land schools.

These texts describe the origins and nature of the Western Pure Land in which the Buddha Amitabha resides.

Doctrinally similar to the Perfection of Wisdom texts, a major theme is the Buddhafield ( Buddha-kshetra ), which was influential on Pure Land schools.

He translated six Buddhist texts to Chinese in 258 at China's famous White Horse Temple, including the Infinite Life Sutra, an important sutra in the Pure Land Buddhism.

It is the longest of the three major texts of Pure Land Buddhism.

Among them are a number of āgama texts ( i. e., non-Mahāyāna sūtras corresponding to scriptures found in the sutta section of the Pāli canon ), didactic verses ( including a version of the Dharmapada and of the * Arthapada, corresponding to the Pāli Aṭṭhakavagga ), a biography of the Buddha, and several Mahāyāna sūtras, of which some of the most famous are the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa, the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha ( dealing with the Pure Land of Amitābha ), the Shorter Perfection of Wisdom scripture ( corresponding to the Sanskrit Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā ), and an early version of what subsequently became the Buddhāvataṃsaka.

His Pure Theory of Law aims to describe law as binding norms while at the same time refusing, itself, to evaluate those norms.

Numan stated " think of Jagged and Pure, but faster, with bigger choruses, more energy, and more aggression " to describe the album's intended sound.

The term is used to describe both the Pure Land soteriology of Mahāyāna Buddhism, which may be better understood as Pure Land traditions, and the separate Pure Land sects that developed in Japan ; in other countries and times, it formed part of the basis of Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions.

These sutras describe Amitābha and his Pure Land of Bliss, called Sukhāvatī.

These sutras describe Amitābha and his Pure Land of Bliss, called Sukhāvatī.

This is a large number of sutras that describe the nature and virtues of a particular Buddha or Bodhisattva and / or their Pure Land, including Mañjusri, Ksitigarbha, the Buddha Akshobhya, and Bhaishajyaguru also known as the Medicine Buddha.

* Pure Fucking Magic, U. S. military slang to describe how weapon systems that are based on difficult to understand scientific principles operate

In some ways, it can be seen as a precursor to Søren Kierkegaard's Either / Or or Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, where some even describe it as a " more incisive and decisive critique of metaphysics than that of Kant.

Though this dance traces its origins to Kūya, a tenth-century evangelist of Pure Land Buddhism, by Okuni's time it had become a largely secular folk dance, and her particular adaptation tended to be known for its sultriness and sexual innuendo.

In 1896, theologian J. H. Worman identified seven categories of pantheism: Mechanical or materialistic ( God the mechanical unity of existence ); Ontological ( abstract unity, Spinoza ); Dynamic ; Psychical ( God is the soul of the world ); Ethical ( God is the universal moral order, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ); Logical ( Hegel ); and Pure ( absorption of God into nature, which Worman equates with atheism ).

Pure endmember knorringite never occurs in nature.

The concept of dialectics was given new life by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( following Fichte ), whose dialectically dynamic model of nature and of history made it, as it were, a fundamental aspect of the nature of reality ( instead of regarding the contradictions into which dialectics leads as a sign of the sterility of the dialectical method, as Immanuel Kant tended to do in his Critique of Pure Reason ).

" According to Barnes, the Critique of Dialectical Reason resembles Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in that it is concerned " with the nature, possibilities, and limitations of human reason.

Pure spirit ( called purusha ) comes into proximity with prakriti ( psychophysical nature ), disturbing its equilibrium.