nembutsu (nembutsu)
(Language: Japanese)
Short Description: remembrance or mindfulness of the Buddha
Long Description: (A) “The practice of reciting Namu-Amida-Butsu (the Name of Amida) is known as recitative nembutsu. There is also meditative nembutsu, which is a method of contemplation. Nembutsu is used synonymously with myogo, or the Name.” (Unno) (B) “remembrance or mindfulness of the Buddha,” based upon the repeated invocation of his Name; same as buddhānusmriti in Sanskrit and nien-fo in Chinese.
Sources: (A) Living in Amida’s Universal Vow: Essays in Shin Buddhism, by Alfred Bloom (B) The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger
