Thích Nh'Ât Hanh: Finding Our True Home–Living in The Pure Land Here and Now; Thích Nh'Ât Hanh: Joyfully Together–The Art of Building a Harmonious Community

摘要: Finding Our True Home constitutes a contemporary commentary on the Smaller SukhAvatIvyUha Sutra, one of the three central texts of the Pure Land School of Buddhism. Nh′ ât Hanh offers a fresh interpretation of the sutra; he rearticulates the Pure Land teachings, skilfully combining them with his own teachings of mindfulness practice—the meditative cultivation of full consciousness in everyday life. As a popular devotional cult of the Buddha Amitabha the Pure Land School is characterized by its doctrines of grace, faith, and future salvation in Amitabha’s “Western Land of Great Happiness.” Nh′ ât Hanh’s commentary deconstructs the dualistic notion of future happiness and salvation and insists “the promised land is available to us as soon as we are available to it”(42). His perspective penetrates into one of the essential teachings of Buddhism—the interdependence of happiness and suffering. Happiness, Nh …