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    The Taima Mandala (當麻曼荼羅,綴織当麻曼荼羅図) is an 8th century mandala in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. It depicts Sukhavati, the western Pure Land, with the Buddha...
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    famous mandala in Japan is the Taima mandala, dated to about 763 CE. The Taima mandala is based on the Contemplation Sutra, but other similar mandalas have...
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    the Taima Mandala, a graphical representation of the Sukhavati Pure Land, and pilgrimage site for Pure Land Buddhists. It is believed that the Taima Mandala...
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    Pure land (section Mandala)
    Roots (Guru, Deva, Dakini) visualised by the practitioner. Mandalas, especially sand mandalas, are 'Pure Lands' and may be understood as Nirmāṇakāya, as...
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    Buddhist biographies, Jataka tales, Pure Land variant paintings (such as Taima mandala), Raigō, Buddhist narrative paintings such as the Two Rivers White Path...
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    association with the origin of the Taima Mandala dates back to the thirteenth century in the form of a handscroll painting titled Taima Mandara engi emaki. In the...
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    "Raigō". HighBeam Research, Inc. Retrieved 16 January 2013. "Exchange: Taima Temple Mandala: Amida Welcomes Chûjôhime to the Western Paradise". exchange.umma...
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    surviving works of Mitsunori is a scroll known as the “Legend of the Taima mandala” (当麻曼荼羅図, Taimamandarazu), executed in a quite conservative style. Tazawa...
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  • from the Shingon and Tendai sects including the use of mandala (such as the famous Taima Mandala), and other ascetic practices. Shōkū, its founder, was...
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    talisman issued by the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) called Jingū Taima (神宮大麻). Jingū Taima were originally purification wands (祓串, haraegushi) that wandering...
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