Amida

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  1. 1
    An ancient city in Mesopotamia located within modern Diyarbakır, Turkey.
  2. 2
    Synonym of Amitābha, the most important buddha of the Pure Land sect.

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amitābha

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"Amida Buddha is different from the historical Gautama Buddha and the futuristic Maitreya Buddha. In the Pure Land sect, adherents repeat the name of Amida, so that they will attain, after they die, Pure Land, a world which is free of sickness and where it is easier to attain Enlightenment than on Earth."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin Amida, from Ancient Greek Ἄμιδα (Ámida), apparently from an Aramaic form with emphatic state ending equivalent to Classical Syriac ܐܡܝܕ (ʾamīḏ).

Etymology 2

A borrowing of Japanese 阿弥陀 (Amida), q.v.

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