Bhakti Thought in Pure Land Buddhism

Buddhism Architecture in Northwestern Iran

Architecture is not only a complex including materials and methods to provide a shelter for human beings, but also it is an expression of the society, which created that. Its form will be the reflection of values and religious orientation besides social maturity of the related society and its structure will narrate the nature, power and different dimensions of mythical and psychological aspects...

A Review of Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought

Pure Land Buddhist View of Du©kha1

that any sort of reference to it falls into delusive attachment to that reality itself, which is none other than its dogmatic substantialization. In this respect, our understanding of the bodhisattva’s compassion must be in itself non-substantialistic, and, moreover, we should not consider the compassion as if there were anything more ultimate or real behind and in addition to that bodhisattva’...

Who Needs Data? Restricting Image Models by Pure Thought

In applications, statistical models for images are often restricted to what produces reasonable estimates for the data at hand. In many cases, the principles that allow a model to be restricted can be derived theoretically, in the absence of any data and with minimal applied context. We present three theoretical examples. We interpret local smoothing of spatial lattice data as Bayesian estimati...

The Pure Theory of Law: Demythologizing Legal Thought