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Eighteen accounts of what is real, each set out in its own terms and each with its own page.
All World Views Does God Exist?The Pure Land stream of the Buddhism timeline.
Streams: All of Buddhism Theravada Mahayana Vajrayana Pure Land Zen Tibetan Buddhism Nichiren Buddhism Secular Buddhism Soka Gakkai Navayana
The monk Huiyuan gathers monks and laymen at Donglin Temple on Mount Lu to vow rebirth in Amitabha's Pure Land; the society becomes the remembered fountainhead of Chinese Pure Land practice, and Mount Lu its sacred mountain.
Shandao, the Chinese master who systematized Pure Land teaching around the nembutsu and the Larger Sutra, dies at Chang'an; his commentary and his parable of the white path shape Pure Land practice across East Asia, and Honen and Shinran later take him as their guide.
The Tang emperor Wuzong, favoring Daoism and short of revenue, suppresses Buddhism across China: monasteries are destroyed, lands seized, and a quarter of a million monks and nuns are returned to lay life by the official count; the blow falls hardest on the wealthy schools, and Chinese Buddhism never fully regains its Tang standing.
Honen, founder of Japan's Jodo school, dies in Kyoto after teaching that the nembutsu alone, said in faith, carries the believer to the Pure Land; exiled once for the teaching's radical simplicity, he is remembered as the father of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.
Shinran, Honen's disciple and the founder of Jodo Shinshu, dies in Kyoto; his teaching of absolute reliance on Amida's Primal Vow, taken by a married priesthood, builds the largest Buddhist tradition in Japan and the ancestor of the Buddhist Churches of America.
