The Infinite Life Sutra, or Larger Pure Land Sutra, a Mahayana Buddhist text, is the primary text of Pure Land Buddhism, and the longest of its three major texts. It is also referred to as the Sukhāvatīvyūha-sūtra in Sanskrit, the Muryojukyo in Japanese, and as Wúliáng shòu jīng in Chinese (traditional Chinese 無量壽經, simplified Chinese 无量寿经). Alternative readings of title include Daimuryōju kyō (Japanese); 무량수경 (Muryangsu gyeong (Korean)); and Vô ...
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The Infinite Life Sutra, or Larger Pure Land Sutra, a Mahayana Buddhist text, is the primary text of Pure Land Buddhism, and the longest of its three major texts. It is also referred to as the Sukhāvatīvyūha-sūtra in Sanskrit, the Muryojukyo in Japanese, and as Wúliáng shòu jīng in Chinese (traditional Chinese 無量壽經, simplified Chinese 无量寿经). Alternative readings of title include Daimuryōju kyō (Japanese); 무량수경 (Muryangsu gyeong (Korean)); and Vô lượng thọ kinh (Vietnamese).
Traditionally it is believed to have been translated twelve times from the original Sanskrit into Chinese from 147 to 713 CE. Of those, only five translations are extant in the Chinese dàzàng jīng (traditional Chinese 大藏經/simplified Chinese 大藏经, Buddhist canon). There are also many historical commentaries on the text written in China, Japan, and Korea.
The most well-known version is the two-fascicle fó shuō wúliáng shòu jīng (佛說無量壽經/佛说无量寿经), meaning "The Buddha speaks of the Infinite Life Sutra". This translation...
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