About Us

The Amida Trust is a non-profit organisation applying Buddhist principles to help sentient beings in an afflicted world. Members of the Trust include people of many faiths who sympathise with this project. The Amida Order is a corps of people committed to the religious life either as lay or ordained practitioners. Order members do much of the actual work of the Amida Trust since this work often requires high levels of commitment. However by no means all office holders or activists in Amida are Order members, or even Pureland Buddhists. Thus the Amida communion is diverse and creatively so