For example, peacocks are often associated with Amitabha. They were said to be his mounts, and images of Amitabha often feature peacock symbolism. What about the other Buddhas? Do they each have an associated animal symbol, and what could the animal represent?

I wanted to ask how Buddhism explains why we don't remember our past lives? Why bother with the Buddhist path when we will not remember this temporary life in our next? I heard that for example contrary to rebirth in the human realm, beings who are reborn in the Pureland of Amitabha can remember their past life. Why bother practice other methods and not only just focus on reaching Sukhavati? If I won't remember the temporary "me" of this life in the next, why bother practicing at all? Isn't it better to know about my continuity in the next life for progression?

Buddha is the name for the Supreme Being, right? So are Amitabha Buddha and Sakyamuni Buddha both Supreme Beings but of different galaxies or something? I assume there are more buddhas than just these two. If so, how can there be many Supreme Beings? I guess I am confused by what it means to say Sakyamuni is the buddha of our saha world while Amitabha presides over Sukhavati.

Does Pure Land Buddhism ever have a Buddha other than Amitābha as the object of devotion? Or is Pure Land Buddhism by definition a devotion to Amitābha and an aspiration to be reborn in his pure land? I'm aware there are a lot of other Buddhas so I just wondered if they were ever the focus of this tradition.

What is the relation of sukhāvatī to 蓮華藏莊嚴世界海 ("the lotus's vault, the perfected lokadhātu, the ocean") attested to in the Buddhāvataṃsakanāmamahāyānasūtra T279 & Āryasaddharmapuṇḍarīkanāmamahāyānasūtra T262, wherein arahantaḥ, according to the Mahāyāna as attested to in aforementioned scriptures, perfect Buddhahood? Context: > Inquiry: in the Arhat's past lives the causes and conditions for being > subject to embodiment necessarily ought to have been eradicated, in > light of this they dwell where to perfect buddhahood? > > Response: when attaining arhatship, the three realms' myriad outflows' > causes and conditions are exhausted, there is no more birth again in > the three realms. There is a pure buddha land, beyond the three > realms, where not even the word affliction has a name, in this kingdom > of the Buddha, they hear the Dharma Flower Sūtra [i.e. the Lotus > Sūtra], with this they perfect Buddhahood. As in the Dharma Flower > Sūtra's words: "There are arhantaḥ, for example, who’ve not heard the > Dharma Flower Sūtra,themselves they call 'ones who have attained > cessation'; I in another realm for them speak this matter, that you > all shall become samyaksaṁbuddhāḥ." > > (Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśaḥ T1509.714a9) Furthermore, these pure lands, what relation do they have to ākaniṣṭaghanavyūha?