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The YouTube channel "Religion for Breakfast" (well, thanks!) is trying to sort out Pure Land Buddhism, with some side glances at Mahayana in general.
The emphasis is on the "esoteric" aspect of Pure Land teachings, as in "the Pure Land is within you" or around you, rather than the more "exoteric" understanding of the Pure Land as a separate paradise world somewhere in the West...
I liked the translation of shunyata as "openness" rather than "emptiness", as it opens up more possibilities and doesn´t sound so utterly nihilistic!
Why have people in the Western world so consistently misunderstood Buddhism as "empty" and nihilistic? Both opponents and practitioners...
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