Buddhist Devotional Practices

Devotional practices belonging to Buddhism across its schools, including Pure Land practices such as the Nembutsu recitation of Amitabha's name, Nichiren Buddhism's chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, the act of taking refuge common to every major Buddhist school, Tibetan and Vajrayana practices such as prostrations, mandala offerings and merit-making, and East Asian Buddhist devotional arts such as Shodo brush calligraphy, Shakyo sutra copying, Uchen Tibetan script, Thangka painting and the sand mandala. A practice this atlas's own live text ties to Buddhism specifically, rather than to a broader East Asian folk or Confucian setting, is grouped here rather than under East Asian Devotional Practices.