Pure Land - Other Well-known Pure Lands

Other Well-known Pure Lands

• Mount Grdhrakūta (靈鷲山釋迦淨土): While Zhiyi was chanting the Lotus sutra, he saw the meeting of Buddha Gautama and Boddhisattvas there. Huisi (慧思大師) said, 'Only you can know that, only I can proof you'.

• Inner Court of Tushita (兜率內院): Some Buddhist scriptures have noted that Maitreya is currently teaching at the Inner Court of Tushita, with some Buddhist Masters, such as Xuanzang, expressing wish to go there. Other Buddhist monks have also been known to have dreamt of going to the Inner Court of Tushita. Some I-Kuan Tao followers claimed to have traveled there,. The Inner Court of Tushita was historically a popular place for Buddhist to wish to be reborn in, however the vast majority of Pure Land Buddhists today hope to be reborn in the Amitabha Buddha's Pure Land

• Abhirati of Akshobhya in the east is suggested by some scholars to be the earliest pure land appeared in Mahayana sutras.

• Vaidūryanirbhāsa (東方淨琉璃世界) of Bhaisajyaguru in the east is compared by some pure land buddhists to Amitabha's pure land in the west. Bhaisajyaguru is also said to have avatars in six other pure lands.

• Zangdok Palri (the Copper-coloured Mountain) of Padmasambhava is in the earth.Dudjom Rinpoche said it was prophesied that all who had taken refuge in Padmasambhava or anyone who had any sort of connection with him would be reborn in Zangdok Palri.

• Shambhala in the Buddhist Kalachakra teachings.

• Dhagpa Khadro of Vajrayogini.

• Changle (長樂淨土) of Qinghuadadi Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun (青華大帝太乙救苦天尊) is a Taoist pure land. Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun also have Avatars in the taoist pure lands in ten directions (eight directions, up, down).

There are some pure land worlds in controversial sutras and folk religion texts.