Tendai
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Tendai, also known as the Tendai Dharma Flower School, is a Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition with significant esoteric elements that was officially established in Japan in 806 by the Japanese monk Saichō.
Enryaku-ji, the head temple of Tendai at Mount Hiei
Mount Hiei in Spring from Umahashi over the Takano river
Kamakura-period statue of Thousand-armed Kannon at Sanjūsangen-dō in Kyoto, Japan.
A statue of Ennin, an important disciple of Saicho
Pure Land
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Pure Land is a Mahayana Buddhist concept referring to a transcendent realm emanated by a buddha or bodhisattva which has been purified by their activity and sustaining power. Pure lands are said to be
Japanese copy of the Pure Land Taima Mandala, which depicts Sukhavati, the most popular Pure Land destination in East Asian Buddhism, hanging scroll from 1750.
Tibetan painting of Amitabha in Sukhavati, c. 1700
Frontispiece of the 1718 Rules for Repenting and Rebirth in the Pure Land (Wangsheng Jingtu Chanyuan Yikuei)
Vietnamese depiction of Ksitigarbha in Sukhavati