The Three Pure Land Sutras: Revised Edition

by Numata Center for Buddhist Translation & Research

Book Overview

This volume includes three texts.

The Larger Sutra on Amitayus relates how a certain mendicant monk by the name of Dharmakara, when practicing under the tutelage of the Tathagata Lokesvararaja, made 48 vows to save all suffering people; to fulfill these vows he created a paradise in the west called Sukhavati, and he himself thus became the Buddha Amitayus. The sutra states, furthermore, that if anyone believing in these 48 vows should chant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886439184
• ISBN13: 9781886439184
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: BDK America
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 9.5"