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| Amida Nyorai seated most popular stile unfinished image - a Japanese cypress wood |
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| unfinished image - a Japanese cypress wood |
| Amida Nyorai standing | Amida Nyorai seated |
Lord of the western pure land
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| Amida Nyorai seated most popular stile unfinished image - a Japanese cypress wood |
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| unfinished image - a Japanese cypress wood |
| Originally | Syaka Nyorai's one of brother He is Lord of the western pure land, The word "Amida" is translated into "Infininte Light" and "Infinite Life.The Buddha's teaching says his pure land is full of the infinite light. |
| Faith | Many Amida Nyiorai mage started to be maden all of Japan in the Fujiwara to the kamakura period with the spread of Pure Land Buddhism. |
| Form | "In",mudra,the form of his hands
is called "Upper Class,Upper Life".easy
to distiguish Amida Nyorai from Shaka
Nyorai
or another buddaha. Amida Nyorai image generally deified with his attendants ,Sho kannon and Seishi Bosatsu. |
| Vow | Amida Nyorai vows that whoever calls his name with deep faith shall be reborn in a paradise called the Western Pure Land. |