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Originally Posted by Gem
Good example.
I thought Pure Land practices chanting someones name.
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Yes Gem, that's correct, the point I was trying to make is that it doesn't really involve sitting meditation. By practising the nembutsu which is the chanting of amitabha's name it's supposed to bring the teachings of the buddha to mind.
It's a buddhism for the masses. Honen and his disciple Shinran were quite revolutionary for their times. They taught the nembutsu to prostitutes and fishermen, farmers and the illiterate, people who were shunned by other Buddhist sects. The precepts are also not adhered to by lay followers unless they choose to uphold them and the object isn't to obtain nibbana and become a buddha in this life, it's to be reborn in amitabha's pureland and progress to nibbana from there.