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Amitābha [2] (Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɐmɪˈtaːbʱɐ]), also known as Amita Buddha (Chinese: 阿彌陀佛; pinyin: Ēmítuó fó) or Amida Buddha (Japanese: 阿弥陀如来 あみだにょらい, Hepburn: Amida nyorai), is the principal Buddha of Pure Land Buddhism.
Gomez, Luis, trans. (1996), The Land of Bliss: The Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless Light: Sanskrit and Chinese Versions of the Sukhavativyuha Sutras, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Gomez calls this edition a "more "free" translation" in the preface. Shaku Shingan (Alexander O'Neill, 2002), The Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra.
The most popular Buddha in East Asian Mahayana is Amitabha Buddha, the central Buddha of the popular Asian Pure Land tradition. One of the earliest sutras which mentions mindfulness of Amitabha Buddha is the Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sūtra (translated into Chinese in 179 CE by Lokakshema ). [ 16 ]
According to the Sūtra on Ten Methods of Rebirth in Amitābha Buddha's Land (十往生阿彌陀佛國經), those people who are devoted to attaining rebirth in the Western Pure Land are protected by a great number of bodhisattvas. Twenty-five of them are given by name: Avalokiteśvara
Reciting this mantra is believed to grant the reciter a peaceful and joyful life in this life, and allow them to be reborn into the Buddha Amitabha's buddha-field of Ultimate Bliss. It can also be recited to help the spirits of the animals that a person has killed in the past, including poultry, game, aquatic creatures, insects, etc. to ascend ...
A sutra book (okyō) showing passages from the Sukhāvatīvyūha.Obtained from Nishi Honganji temple in Kyoto, Japan.. The Amitāyus Sutra (), simplified Chinese: 佛说无量壽經; traditional Chinese: 佛說無量壽經; pinyin: Fóshuōwúliàngshòujīng; Sutra of Immeasurable Life Spoken by Buddha; Vietnamese: Phật Thuyết Kinh Vô Lượng Thọ; Japanese: Taisho Tripitaka no. 360 ...
That the Buddha Amitabha sought to excel among Buddhas by providing a way out of suffering that all could practice. Later the chapter quotes at length passages from the writings of Nagarjuna , Vasubandhu , Shan-tao and Hōnen as well as other Jodo Shinshu Patriarchs in chronological order.
The text of the 18th vow of Amitabha Buddha, according to Infinite Life Sutra, reads: [1]. If, when I attain Buddhahood, sentient beings in the lands of the ten quarters who sincerely and joyfully entrust themselves to me, desire to be born in my land, and call my Name, even ten times, should not be born there, may I not attain perfect Enlightenment.