Name: Buddha's Pure Land
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Pure Land Buddhism or Amidism is one of the most important Mahayana schools and one of the most popular religious-philosophical practices in East Asia and Japan.

Its religious tradition centers on the belief and invocation of the infamous Lord of the Western Paradise, Amitabha, but is not limited to strict "dogmatic" adherence to the Buddha in question. Next to Amida, many other divine beings and enlightened Bodhisattvas are recognized, creating over the centuries a huge tradition of ferments, influences, compositions and the emergence of new practices, often so unique and original, capable of characterizing the specific current of Buddhism as distinct and altogether particular. The Pure Land can fruitfully synthesize the beliefs and doctrines of other Buddhist Schools (Zen, Shingon, Kegon, Tendai etc.) and religions (e.g. Taoism), and ferment them in its bosom in a highly creative way , so that it presents itself as a completely distinct religious path within the broader type of Mahayana Buddhism.

It is explained that the importance of the Holy Land is not limited to its simple "naturalization" in an academic textbook of comparative religion or history of religions. On the contrary, the thesis is documented that its deepest meanings are decoded in a living and multifaceted spiritual safekeeping of the unconscious Archetypes, but also in a highly esoteric religiosity whose images and concepts embody the eternal needs of the human psyche for Wholeness, Redemption and Salvation .

For the first time in the Greek literature, an in-depth study of the particular form of Buddhism of the Pure Land is attempted and its historical, philosophical and artistic course in the countries of the East is described.

Author Biography

Ο Petros Papapostolou was born in 1981 in Athens. His father comes from Chrysos Serres and his mother from Koilani Limassol, Cyprus. In 2000 he entered the Department of Social Theology and Religion of Athens where he completed his studies in 2004. Due to his excellent academic performance he won four Scholarships from the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), while in 2005 he was awarded by the IKY with a special Excellence in Studies. In 2004 he entered the Master's program of the Department of Religion, Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Athens where he excelled, winning the Japanese Sasakawa scholarship from the Nippon Foundation in Tokyo. In 2006 he completes his Master's thesis (MSc) on Plato (topic: "The Platonic Discourse on Virtue") and in the same year begins his Doctoral Thesis (PhD), which he successfully defends and is awarded at the end of 2008 (topic: "Platonic Eschatology and its Extensions in Plutarch"). ΓFor three years he has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Athens and teaches "History of Philosophy" and "Philosophy Topics". His postdoctoral research continues and since 2007 he has published ten books. His work Critique of Unconscious Speech was published in 2012 in Cyprus and was a candidate for the State Science Award. The same book was republished in Athens in 2014. A series of his scientific articles concerning issues of dogmatic theology, philosophy and psychoanalysis are published in prestigious magazines of Greece and Cyprus (Historical Themes, Reflections, etc.). He is engaged in painting and poetry. In 2010 he won the 2012st Panhellenic Prize for Painting and the 2019st Prize for Poetry from the "Parnassos" Philological Association. He has had an individual Painting Exhibition in XNUMX, while he constantly participates in many Group Exhibitions. In XNUMX, he was honored by the municipality of Vrilissi and its Free University with a presentation of his written work and with an individual Painting Exhibition. His poems are published in collective volumes, while his paintings can be found in Greece, Cyprus and Qatar.

He taught "Philosophy and Art" at the Seminar Center - Opera Conservatory of Athens, while he delivers a series of philosophical lectures at the Free University of the municipality of Vrilissi and at a seminar center in Kerameikos. He teaches philology courses to Secondary Education students. He is married (2014) and father of a boy (2016).

His books are published by Daidaleos publications The Archetype of God – From psychoanalysis in search of Wholeness, to the philosophy of inner Silence (2021) and The Rose of Philosophers – The Secret of Spiritual Alchemy (2022)

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