Sentence examples for western paradise from inspiring English sources
Amitabha was the buddha of the western paradise, around whom an important devotional cult developed.
Mountain shapes, trees, and rocks combined in a landscape representation of the Western Paradise of the Amida Buddha.
It expresses the author's personal devotion to Amitabha, the celestial Buddha of Infinite Light, and his desire for rebirth in the Western Paradise, or Amitabha's Pure Land (Sukhavati).
The first of these was Amitabha, the great buddha who presided over the western paradise and became the central figure in the traditions of Pure Land Buddhism.
Images of the three are often placed together in temples, and Guanyin, the female consort of Amitabha, is shown in painting welcoming the dead to the Western Paradise.
In a variation of that theme, paintings of the Nika Byakudō ("White Path to the Western Paradise Across Two Rivers") type show both the difficulties encountered by the believer journeying to the Western Paradise and, at the centre, the Jizō benevolently ministering to those in need.
Far from conforming to Western notions of paradise, traditional Polynesian cultures were in fact complex, highly specialized, and adapted to environments that could be quite hostile.
They know the Maldives are very close to the western view of paradise and they are working very hard to build and maintain this natural, undeveloped look.
As prime minister until 1998, he made Slovakia a pariah in western eyes, and a paradise for goons and gangsters.
The western idea of a paradise holiday is to get as close as possible to nature in its most benign form, where the green land meets the blue sea at a golden beach.
Paradise lost, paradise regained.
