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I've never really read commentaries on any of the Three Pure Land Sutras. Does anyone have any favorites or recommendations?

Thanks so much :smile:
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Monlam Tharchin wrote: Sat Oct 21, 2017 3:20 am I've never really read commentaries on any of the Three Pure Land Sutras. Does anyone have any favorites or recommendations?

Thanks so much :smile:
Sadly there isn't much translated. Here is the one I read ages ago, Master Ou-I's commentary
http://www.ymba.org/books/mind-seal-bud ... abha-sutra

The dawn of Chinese pure land Buddhist doctrine : Ching-ying Hui-yuan's Commentary on the Visualization sutra / Kenneth K. Tanaka.
Tanaka, Kenneth Ken'ichi.

Mind-seal of the Buddhas : Patriarch Ou-i's commentary on the Amitabha Sutra / translated by J.C. Cleary ; foreword, notes and glossary by Van Hien Study Group.
Zhixu, 1599-1655.

Master Hsuan Hua from City of 10,000 Buddhas: http://www.cttbusa.org/amitabhacommenta ... abha13.htm

Jing tu jing lun zhu jie.
淨土經論註解.
Imprint Taibei Xian : San hui xue chu, 2001.
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Chih-I:
The Tai-ching states "the women in the realms of Mara, Sakra and Brahma all neither abandoned ( their old) bodies nor received (new) bodies. They all received buddhahood with their current bodies (genshin)" Thus these verses state that the dharma nature is like a great ocean. No right or wrong is preached (within it) Ordinary people and sages are equal, without superiority or inferiority
Paul, Groner "The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture"eds. Tanabe p. 58
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Thank you very much, rory :smile:
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Monlam Tharchin wrote: Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:47 pm Thank you very much, rory :smile:
:anjali: I'm happy to help

I ran a search through the Harvard Hollis catalogue and there is more in dissertations, articles
http://hollis.harvard.edu/primo_library ... ulkSize=30

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Kyonghung's commentary on the "Larger Sukhavativyuha Sutra" and the formation of Pure Land Buddhism in Silla
Jung, Hee-Soo
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
ProQuest Dissertations Publishing
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Chih-I:
The Tai-ching states "the women in the realms of Mara, Sakra and Brahma all neither abandoned ( their old) bodies nor received (new) bodies. They all received buddhahood with their current bodies (genshin)" Thus these verses state that the dharma nature is like a great ocean. No right or wrong is preached (within it) Ordinary people and sages are equal, without superiority or inferiority
Paul, Groner "The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture"eds. Tanabe p. 58
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Here's a thread from a while back, it has links to several commentaries to the Visualisation Sutra.

viewtopic.php?f=60&t=26382&p=406198#p406198
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Here's a paper that tarnslates and comments on parts of Tan-luan's "Birth through Causal Conditions." https://web.archive.org/web/20100707052 ... /03RT2.pdf
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Master Hua's is still an excellent guide:

http://www.cttbusa.org/amitabhacommentary/contents.htm
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Hello!

My favourites thus far are

1. Great Faith, Great Wisdom by Ratnaguna and Sraddhapa. Enjoyed both the commentary and the translation of the Larger Sukhavativyuha Sutra.

2. Ven. Thubten Chodron's Amitabha Retreat, more of her teachings on Amitabha can be found on YouTube too.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... YLfiMs8sc0

3. Finding our True Home; Living in the pure land here and now. By Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh.

To me, each of them adds a new dimension to helping me understand the Pure Land path.

_/\_ Amituofo
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