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Dharmavidya David Brazier

Pure Land

Dharmavidya David Brazier is the founder of the Amida community, a Pure Land Buddhist sangha in the West centred on the nembutsu and on trust in Amida's acceptance of beings just as they are. A psychotherapist as well as a teacher, he has written books linking Buddhism and psychology, including “Zen Therapy” and “The Feeling Buddha”, and a series on the foundations of Pure Land Buddhism for Tricycle.

Pure LandUnited Kingdom / France
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Dharmavidya David Brazier

Dharmavidya David Brazier is the founder of the Amida community, a Pure Land Buddhist sangha in the West centred on the nembutsu and on trust in Amida's acceptance of beings just as they are. A psychotherapist as well as a teacher, he has written books linking Buddhism and psychology, including “Zen Therapy” and “The Feeling Buddha”, and a series on the foundations of Pure Land Buddhism for Tricycle.

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10 min
Interview

Pureland Buddhism

David and Caroline Brazier talk with Iain McNay about what drew them to Pure Land rather than to the Zen they trained in.

55 min
Talk

Regaining Innocence

On the nembutsu and the precepts as the way back to innocence, from the 2019 Bodhi gathering.

47 min
Talk

What Pure Land Says About the Buddha's Awakening

A retreat talk arguing that the Pure Land reading of the Buddha's enlightenment differs from the one most Western practitioners have been given.

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Amida's name, said in trust

Pure Land

A path of trust in Amida Buddha, the Buddha of Infinite Light, carried above all in the recitation of his name: Namu Amida Butsu, Namo Amituofo.

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