Chanting is nothing more than an expression of gratitude to Amitabha Buddha and an expression of the chanter's faith. |
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Inside, the statue sits in the west facing east because it is an Amitabha, Buddha of the Western Paradise. |
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In Pure Land Buddhism, devotion to the Buddha Amitabha is the main practice. |
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Below Amitabha is the horse-headed Hayagriva, the principal wrathful deity of Amitabha's lotus family. |
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Three books old, the first thing that strikes you about Amitabha Bagchi is the sheer familiarity you feel with his fiction. |
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Her 77-year-old mother Marita was working at the Druk Amitabha Mountain DGK nunnery outside Kathmandu when the first earthquake hit Nepal in April. |
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