The Five Pure Land Sutras & One Treatise

Extract of Jiawen's live Chinese Sutra talk on the Amitabha Sutra (Jiawen will slowly expound all the Pure Land sutras and other important Mahayana sutras in both Chinese and English).

In the Age of Dharma Decline, beings are of shallow faculties. Only the Pure Land path of reciting Amitabha Buddha’s Name is the most direct, complete, and reliable. We earnestly encourage you to always recite: Namo Amitabha Buddha (Namo Amituofo) ????

With utmost sincerity, firm faith, and deep aspiration, vow to be reborn in the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, to transcend the cycle of birth and death in one lifetime and realise Buddhahood ????
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The Main Texts of Pure Land Practice

The Pure Land tradition is rooted in the scriptures known as the “Five Sutras and One Treatise.”

???? The Five Sutras
1. The Buddha Speaks of Amitabha Sutra
2. The Buddha Speaks of the Infinite Life Sutra
3. The Buddha Speaks of the Contemplation of Infinite Life Sutra
4. The Śūraṅgama Sūtra – Chapter on the Perfect Penetration of Mindfulness of the Buddha by Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta
5. The Avataṃsaka Sūtra – Chapter on the Practices and Vows of Samantabhadra

???? The One Treatise
• The Treatise on Rebirth in the Pure Land by Bodhisattva Vasubandhu (Tianzun/Tanqin in Chinese)

These Five Sutras and One Treatise are the principal texts for Pure Land practitioners.
(All texts are available to download on our website)

https://www.pure-land-buddhism.com/pure-land-sutras

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Namo Great Compassionate Amitabha Buddha ????
Namo Amituofo ????