Definitions for Amida

Amida A·mi·da

Spelling: [ah-mi-duh]
IPA: /ˈɑ mɪ də/

Amida is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in Amida (aadim).

Definitions for Amida

noun

  1. a Buddha who rules over paradise, enjoying endless and infinite bliss.
  2. a paradise believed by the followers of a Mahayana sect (Pure Land sect) to be ruled over by a Buddha (Amida) whose hope it is to bring all beings into it.

Origin of Amida

First recorded in 1930-35

Examples for Amida

But the ruin of Amida was the safety of the Roman provinces.

The Roman generals, regarding Amida as impregnable, and not aware of the exhaustion of its stores, gladly consented.

Amida is usually accompanied by Kwannon on one side and Daiseishi on the other.

I trust to my own good deeds and the intercession of Amida Butsu.

Yet Amida had at least performed the duty which is ordinarily expected of a fortress.

Visions of Amida and of the holy teachers of the past were vouchsafed to him.

The Chinese poets celebrate the sacred bean of India, out of which their god Amida and her child arose, in the middle of a lake.

In Amida Buddhism, however, there are many gods, and a multitude of figures.

No praise rises to Amida for the wonders of the universe or the blessings of life.

Amitabha is the Sanskrit of Amida, or the deification of boundless light.

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