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buddhanusmriti (buddhānusmṛti)

(Language: Sanskrit)

Short Description: (continual) “remembrance or mindfulness of the Buddha”

Long Description: (continual) “remembrance or mindfulness of the Buddha,” based upon the repeated invocation of his Name; central to the Pure Land school of Buddhism; known in Chinese as nien-fo and in Japanese as nembutsu.

Sources: The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger