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I am the Admin for The Nembutsu Buddhist Fellowship on FaceBook. The Purpose of the Nembutsu Fellowship is to facilitate the teachings of Pure Land Buddhism and connect believers in Pure Land Buddhism to each other on a non-sectarian basis. This is a non-sectarian Pure Land Buddhist Page. We are here to promote faith in Amitabha (Amida) Buddha, the Pure Land Sutras and discuss the practices of ALL Pure Land Buddhist schools without discrimination. Our link is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Nembuts ... ellowship/

Karma Chagme’s Aspiration Prayer of the Pure Realm of Sukhavati

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Mother's Lap wrote:Karma Chagme’s Aspiration Prayer of the Pure Realm of Sukhavati

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Drukpa Kagyu chant of the Aspiration Prayer for Sukhavati.

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Medicine Buddha (Sk: Bhaishajyaguru, Tib: Sangye Menla, Jp: Yakushi Nyorai, Ch: Yaoshi Fo) Sutra

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The Gateway to Sukhavati by The Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-1682)

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Ongoing Lecture Series on The Buddha Speaks of Amitabha Sutra by the Venerable Guan Cheng

Mother's Lap wrote:Karma Chagme’s Aspiration Prayer of the Pure Realm of Sukhavati

http://www.kagyulibrary.hk/cms/uploads/ ... /58-en.pdf

Its autocommentary.

http://www.dhagpo-kagyu-ling.org/en/ind ... g-prayer-1
http://www.dhagpo-kagyu-ling.org/en/ind ... g-prayer-2
http://www.dhagpo-kagyu-ling.org/en/ind ... g-prayer-3

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Mother's Lap wrote:Medicine Buddha (Sk: Bhaiṣajyaguru, Tib: Sangye Menla, Jp: Yakushi Nyorai, Ch: Yaoshi Fo) Sutra

http://web.singnet.com.sg/~alankhoo/HealingSutra.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/az2/karmadorje ... uddha.html

Sanskrit Bhaiṣajyaguruvaiḍūryaprabharāja Sutra
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8sictpcdhteid ... a.pdf?dl=0

Tibetan Concise Bhaiṣajyaguruvaiḍūryaprabharāja Sutra
http://buddha-nature.com/2013/04/23/the ... dha-sutra/

I have a blog where I post Pure Land quotes, poetry, and passages. I also try to translate things into Esperanto for the international community. I'll soon begin adding French translations as well.

http://thenarrowwhitepath.tumblr.com/

duckfiasco wrote:I have a blog where I post Pure Land quotes, poetry, and passages. I also try to translate things into Esperanto for the international community. I'll soon begin adding French translations as well.

http://thenarrowwhitepath.tumblr.com/

Awesome blog!
I'm tempted to offer translation into Japanese, but I really don't have time.
The good news is that for some of the quoted works, Japanese & Chinese may already exist somewhere online.

Since I'm posting on this thread again already I figured I'll add some of the links I posted last night:

Interesting article & video (that I got from Greg K) that gives insight to an eldest son expected to take over as high priest as his family's Jodo Shin Shu temple.

Rev Kosen Ishikawa has started doing live Jodo Shu dharma services.
I think the standard start time will be 4pm EST (8pm GST) on Sundays.
Future Dharma services and his previous Dharma Services can be accessed at his youtube channel.

This website is a video site that's been used to broadcast 24 hour Nembutsu marathons from Japan & Hawaii. The info doesn't look to have been updated since 2013, but I was told it's still the site to go to in order to learn about & participate in (view) upcoming events.

PorkChop wrote:This website is a video site that's been used to broadcast 24 hour Nembutsu marathons from Japan & Hawaii. The info doesn't look to have been updated since 2013, but I was told it's still the site to go to in order to learn about & participate in (view) upcoming events.

Here's an updated link for this that seems to be more recent (2014):
http://canchiin.net/special/24tokyo/watchall.html

This link seems to be even better (just look for 24時間):
http://canchiin.net/

Anyone have info about sadhana that Tulku Migyur Dorje received from Buddha Amitabha?

Saoshun wrote:Anyone have info about sadhana that Tulku Migyur Dorje received from Buddha Amitabha?

Is it this one? http://www.khandro.net/deity_Amita_TengaR.htm

About This Sadhana

This Amitabha sadhana is a terma teaching called "The Space Dharma" (Tib. nam chös), revealed by a tertön, Mingyur Dorjé. It is a 'realisation-terma' that arose within his mind, with visions of Amitabha, from whom he received these teachings. Rigdzin Minjur Dorjé was an emanation of the translator Vairocana (8th C.), and of Shubu Palji Sengé. Karma Chagmé brought the tertön to his residence at Nédo, and when these visions and instructions from Amitabha came to Minjur Dorjé, Karma Chagmé wrote them all down. There are 13 volumes of these teachings.

Thank you PorkChop, yeah that's it, I was just curious, how other pure landers view on this practice?

Saoshun wrote:Thank you PorkChop, yeah that's it, I was just curious, how other pure landers view on this practice?

Looks like a very interesting practice. It's at the same time both similar and yet very different from the way Amitabha and Sukhavati are portrayed in east asian Pure Land (though perhaps more consistent with Shingon). Kind of hard to explain without going into a lot of detail, but even some of the apparent differences are reconciled when you take a wider look at various points of doctrine. As a practice, it definitely looks a lot more involved than even the Meditation Sutra (佛說觀無量壽佛經). I imagine having a teacher to help you get started with this practice is an absolute must. I couldn't imagine trying to do it just from reading the description (though I'm not a good practitioner).

Sacramento Betsuin has been posting a lot of Dharma talks lately.

https://www.youtube.com/user/sacbuddhistchurch/videos

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