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无量寿经英文版
Pure Land Buddhist Scriptures
The Sutra on the Buddha of Infinite Life
THE LARGER SUTRA ON AMITAYUS: Part 1
This Sutra expounds the Sacred Story of Amida and was delivered by
Shakyamuni Buddha and translated into Chinese during the Ts'ao-Wei
dynasty by the Tripitaka Master Samghavarman from India
Translated from Chinese by Hisao Inagaki
The text follows the Taisho Tripitaka
edition, vol. 12, and the passage numbers
follow Jodoshinshu Seiten, 1988, pp. 3-40.
Preface
[1] Thus have I heard. At one time the Buddha was staying on the Vulture
Peak in Rajagriha with a pany of twelve thousand monks. They
were all great sages who had already attained supernatural powers. Among
them were the following: the Venerable Ajnata-kaundinya, the Venerable
Ashvajit, the Venerable Vaspa, the Venerable Mahanama, the Venerable
Bhadrajit, the Venerable Vimala, the Venerable Yashodeva, the Venerable
Subahu, the Venerable Purnaka, the Venerable Gavampati, the Venerable
Uruvilva-kashyapa, the Venerable Gaya-kashyapa, the Venerable
Nadi-kashyapa, the Venerable Mahakashyapa, the Venerable Shariputra, the
Venerable Mahamaudgalyayana, the Venerable Kapphina, the Venerable
Mahakausthilya, the Venerable Mahakatyayana, the Venerable Mahacunda,
the Venerable Purna-maitrayaniputra, the Venerable Aniruddha, the
Venerable Revata, the Venerable Kimpila, the Venerable Amogha-raja, the
Venerable Parayanika, the Venerable Vakkula, the Venerable Nanda, the
Venerable Svagata, the Venerable Rahula and the Venerable Ananda. All of
these were Elders.
Mahayana bodhisattvas also panied the Buddha, including all those of
this Auspicious Kalpa, such as the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, the
Bodhisattva Manjushri and the Bodhisattva Maitreya. There were also the
sixteen lay bodhisattvas, such as Bhadrapala, as well as the Bodhisattva
Profound Thought, the Bodhisattva Wisdom of Faith, the Bodhisattva
Voidness, the Bodhisattva Bloom of Supernatural Power, the Bodhisattva
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