The Amitabha Sutra - Innumerable Arhats and Bodhisattvas
Moreover, this Buddha has innumerable disciples, all of whom are Arhats, whose numbers are incalculable. Amitabha also has a following of...
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Mar 6, 20222 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - The Buddha of Infinite Life
Also, the life-span of this Buddha and his people is an infinite number of immeasurable eons, and so he is called Amitabha. Amitabha...
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Mar 1, 20221 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - The Buddha of Infinite Light
The light of this Buddha is infinite, and shines on all lands throughout the universe without obstruction. Thus this Buddha is called...
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Feb 20, 20222 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - Why Is This Buddha Called Amitabha?
What do you think: why is this Buddha called Amitabha? Why did Sakyamuni Buddha introduce Amitabha Buddha and the Pure Land? Because...
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Feb 13, 20221 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - The Wonderfully Adorned Buddha Land
This Buddha-land is complete with all these adornments and virtues. Sakyamuni Buddha again told Sariputra that the Pure Land is...
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Feb 8, 20222 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - Breezes Stir the Trees
In this Buddha-land, there is a slight breeze that stirs the rows of jewel trees and jewel netting, so that they emit subtle wondrous...
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Jan 28, 20223 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - Birds Created to Sing the Dharma
Do not think that these birds were born as birds due to karmic retribution for past misdeeds. Why not? In this Buddha-land, the Three...
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Jan 23, 20222 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - The Songs of the Birds Inspire Mindfulness
When sentient beings in this land hear the singing of the birds, they become mindful of the Buddhas, mindful of the Dharma, mindful of...
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Jan 17, 20226 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - The Eightfold Path
. . . the Eightfold Path, as well as other teachings. The five roots, the five powers, and the seven factors of enlightenment are...
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Jan 7, 20225 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
. . . the Seven Factors of Enlightenment, . . . In our practice of the thirty-seven limbs of enlightenment, the five roots and the five...
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Jan 2, 20226 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - The Five Roots and the Five Powers
. . . the Five Roots, the Five Powers, . . . Root means “being able to sustain and grow.” As the five roots are cultivated, the five...
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Dec 12, 20211 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - The Perfectly Adorned Land of Ultimate Bliss
The Land of Ultimate Bliss is complete with all these adornments and virtues. This sentence concludes the description of the gems, ponds,...
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Dec 5, 20213 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - Celestial Music
And there is more—celestial music is constantly playing in this Buddha-land, and the ground is made of pure gold. Heavenly flowers rain...
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Nov 28, 20211 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - The Wonderful Adornments and Virtues
The Land of Ultimate Bliss is complete with all these adornments and virtues. In his commentary, Great Master Ouyi wrote of the two...
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Nov 20, 20213 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - Luminescent Lotus Flowers
In the ponds there are lotus flowers as big as cartwheels: blue ones shining with blue light, yellow ones shining with yellow light, red...
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Nov 11, 20211 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - Walkways and Towers
The bottom of each of the ponds is pure golden sand, and the stepped walkways that lead up from all four sides of each of the ponds are...
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Nov 5, 20213 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - Ponds of Seven Jewels
Moreover, the Land of Ultimate Bliss has ponds of seven jewels filled with the waters of eight virtues. Just as with the rows of railing,...
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Oct 31, 20219 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - Trees of Precious Gems
Furthermore, this land is called “Ultimate Bliss” because it is surrounded by seven rings of railings, and seven layers of netting, and...
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Oct 24, 20216 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - A Land of Joy without Suffering
Why is this land called Ultimate Bliss? It is called “Ultimate Bliss” because the sentient beings in this land are free from the myriad...
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Oct 7, 20214 min read
The Amitabha Sutra - The Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss
At that time Buddha said to the Elder Shariputra: “West of here, past a hundred billion Buddha-lands, there exists a world called...
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