Nianfo

Çin Nianfo oyması

Nianfo (Çince: 念佛; pinyin: niànfó; Japonca: 念仏, romanize: nenbutsu; Korece: 염불, romanize: yeombul; Vietnamca: niệm Phật), Doğu Asya Budizmi'nin merkezinde yer alan bir Budizm uygulamasıdır. Çince bir terim olan nianfo, klasik bir Budist farkındalık (smṛti) uygulaması olan Sanskritçe buddhānusmṛtinin (veya "Buddha'nın hatırlanması") bir çevirisidir.

Buda Amitabha'ya odaklanan Nianfo, Arı Ülke Budizmi'ndeki en önemli uygulamadır. Doğu Asya Arı Ülke uygulaması bağlamında, nianfo terimi genellikle "Amitabha Buda'ya Saygı" ifadesiyle Amitabha adının sözlü tekrarını ifade eder. Aynı zamanda bu ifadenin kendisine de atıfta bulunabilir, bu durumda ona nianfo veya myōgō ("isim") de denebilir.

Bibliyografi

• Baskind, James (2008). The Nianfo in Obaku Zen: A Look at the Teachings of the Three Founding Masters, Japanese Religions 33 (1–2),19-34
• Buswell, Robert Jr; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., (Ed.) (2013). Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691157863. 
• Dharma Master Thich Tinh Lac (Suddhisukha) (2000). Taming the Monkey Mind: A Guide to Pure Land Practice by the Buddhist Scholar Cheng Wei-an Translation with Commentary by Dharma Master Suddhisukha.. Sutra Translation Committee of the U. S. and Canada.
• Grumbach, Lisa (2005). "Nenbutsu and Meditation: Problems with the Categories of Contemplation, Devotion, Meditation, and Faith", Pacific World, Third Series, 7, 91–105.
• Inagaki Hisao, trans., Stewart, Harold (2003). The Three Pure Land Sutras, 2nd ed., Berkeley, Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research. 1-886439-18-4
• Jones, Charles B. (2001). Toward a Typology of Nien-fo: A Study in Methods of Buddha-Invocation in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, Pacific World, Third Series, 3, 219–239.
• Jones, Charles B. (2019). Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, Understanding a Tradition of Practice. University of Hawai‘i Press / Honolulu.
• Jones, Charles B. (2021). Pure Land: History, Tradition, and Practice. Shambhala Publications.
• Keenan, John P. (1989). Nien-Fo (Buddha-Anusmrti): The Shifting Structure of Remembrance, Pacific World, New Series 5, 40–52
• Li-Ying, Kuo (1995), La récitation des noms de "buddha" en Chine et au Japon. T'oung Pao, Second Series 81 (4/5), 230–268
• Payne, Richard K. (2005). "Seeing Buddhas, Hearing Buddhas: Cognitive Significance of Nenbutsu as Visualization and as Recitation", Pacific World, Third Series, 7, 110-141
• Thích Thiện Tâm (1994). Buddhism of Wisdom & Faith: Pure Land Principles and Practice. Sutra Translation Committee of the United States.

Dış bağlantılars

• The Nian Fo according to the Jodo Shu tradition
• The Tannisho
• The Larger Sutra of Immeasurable Life