Both are used, and it seems that both refere to the exact same concept ... Buddhaksetra / Zhing Khams.
Is there any differences between ?
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Buddhafield or Pure Land
Buddhafield or Pure Land
By understanding everything you perceive from the perspective of the view, you are freed from the constraints of philosophical beliefs.
By understanding that any and all mental activity is meditation, you are freed from arbitrary divisions between formal sessions and postmeditation activity.
- Longchen Rabjam -
By understanding that any and all mental activity is meditation, you are freed from arbitrary divisions between formal sessions and postmeditation activity.
- Longchen Rabjam -
Re: Buddhafield or Pure Land
That question was debated here at a few weeks ago i think.
Anyway, the short answer from someone not into such subjects, i think that a Zhing Kham refers to a given place where a Buddha arises and teaches. In this way you may have a impure Zhing Kham, like Earth, a place born from Samsara and Kamma, so to say. Our Earth is the place where Buddha Shakyamuni taught and can only appear as pure to the eyes of very pure people (biddhistavas, enlightened people, etc), otherwise will seem as impure to the eyes of "ordinary" people.
But we also have pure Zing Khams, created by Buddhas. Such Zhing Khams are pure, even to the eyes of ordinary people; also, its not easy to reborn their. The Pure Land of Amitabha and the Pure Land of Medicine Buddha are 2 examples of pure Zhing Khams.
Please, note that i may be wrong. I am not a schoolar and i have heard about Zhing Khams only here at a few weeks ago! If i am wrong, please, someone correct me.
Anyway, the short answer from someone not into such subjects, i think that a Zhing Kham refers to a given place where a Buddha arises and teaches. In this way you may have a impure Zhing Kham, like Earth, a place born from Samsara and Kamma, so to say. Our Earth is the place where Buddha Shakyamuni taught and can only appear as pure to the eyes of very pure people (biddhistavas, enlightened people, etc), otherwise will seem as impure to the eyes of "ordinary" people.
But we also have pure Zing Khams, created by Buddhas. Such Zhing Khams are pure, even to the eyes of ordinary people; also, its not easy to reborn their. The Pure Land of Amitabha and the Pure Land of Medicine Buddha are 2 examples of pure Zhing Khams.
Please, note that i may be wrong. I am not a schoolar and i have heard about Zhing Khams only here at a few weeks ago! If i am wrong, please, someone correct me.
Re: Buddhafield or Pure Land
thank you Nosta, I will try to found the original thread ...
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By understanding everything you perceive from the perspective of the view, you are freed from the constraints of philosophical beliefs.
By understanding that any and all mental activity is meditation, you are freed from arbitrary divisions between formal sessions and postmeditation activity.
- Longchen Rabjam -
By understanding that any and all mental activity is meditation, you are freed from arbitrary divisions between formal sessions and postmeditation activity.
- Longchen Rabjam -
Re: Buddhafield or Pure Land
The term "pure land" has appeared in Chinese Buddhism, first as a term for Amitabha's buddha-land, then it's become the common term for any buddha-land. So I'd say it's simply a matter of language.
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
Re: Buddhafield or Pure Land
found it ... had my answers ... thank you
By understanding everything you perceive from the perspective of the view, you are freed from the constraints of philosophical beliefs.
By understanding that any and all mental activity is meditation, you are freed from arbitrary divisions between formal sessions and postmeditation activity.
- Longchen Rabjam -
By understanding that any and all mental activity is meditation, you are freed from arbitrary divisions between formal sessions and postmeditation activity.
- Longchen Rabjam -