Yongming Yanshou was a prominent Buddhist monk during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and early Song Dynasty in China. He promoted a non-sectarian and inclusive Mahayana Buddhism, drawing o
Liao dynasty statue of the Eleven Headed Guanyin in Dule Temple in Tianjin, China.
Nianfo is a Buddhist practice central to East Asian Buddhism. The Chinese term nianfo is a translation of Sanskrit buddhānusmṛti, a classic Buddhist mindfulness practice.
Chinese Nianfo carving
The Nembutsu in Chinese characters and the five-syllable mantra (aḥ vi ra hūṃ khaṃ) of Vairocana in Siddhaṃ script.
Portrait of the Chinese Pure land patriarch Shandao reciting "the nianfo" (Amitabha's name)
The six Chinese characters of the nianfo, resting on a lotus, flanked by Sakyamuni and Amitabha