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Huiyuan's White Lotus Society at Mount Lu

Type Event Region China Time 402

In 402 CE (the eighth year of Yixi, Eastern Jin), the monk Huiyuan founded the White Lotus Society at Donglin Temple on Mount Lu, pioneering organize…

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  1. 384–402Mount Lu · JiangxiHuiyuan traveled south from Xiangyang to Mount Lu, teaching and preaching around Donglin Temple and gathering monastic and lay disciples, laying the foundation of place and followers for the later society's devotional practice.
  2. 402Donglin Temple, Mount Lu · Mount LuHuiyuan, Liu Yimin, and other noted figures, monks and laypeople together formed the White Lotus Society, vowing to be reborn in the Western Pure Land through Buddha-recitation, and drew up rules, becoming a famous Buddhist devotional community in Chinese history.
  3. 402–416Mount Lu · JiangxiThe Buddha-recitation Pure Land thought advocated by the White Lotus Society spread widely in Jiangnan, making Mount Lu a sacred site of Pure Land faith and leaving a lasting influence on later Pure Land Buddhism and East Asian Pure Land traditions.

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