Tan-luan
Sign in to saveTanluan (, 476–554) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who wrote on Pure Land Buddhism.
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- Born
- 476
- Died
- 542
- Works
- 1
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- Ōjōronchū
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Northern Qi
- Occupation
- Buddhist monk
- Religion
- Pure Land Buddhism
- Image
- Tanluan ms3.jpg
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- date of birth
- 0476-00-00
- date of death
- 0542-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Life
- Works
- Teaching
- Buddha's other power
- Buddha's vows
- The transformative power of the pure land
- Tanluan's non-dual buddhology
- Practice
- How the practice works
- Being in accordance with the meaning of the Name
- True Faith
- Influence
- References
- Literature
Tanluan (, 476–554) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who wrote on Pure Land Buddhism.
Tanluan was the first East Asian Buddhist to stress the importance of the Buddha's Other Power as a liberating force. He held that through the practice of nianfo (buddha recollection), the Buddha's power would take them to the pure land after death. This doctrine would become very important in later Pure Land Buddhism.
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