Previous Section | Contents | Next Section 净土宗十三祖印光大师 The Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng 原文：人生在世，皆不能免疾病死亡之苦。 白话：人生在世，都不能避免生病与死亡的痛苦。 Of humans born in...
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[1] How To Use This Book 如何运用此书
Contents | Next Section The approach of death is eventual for everyone, unless we attain enlightenment in this single lifetime, which is not easy at all. What makes it more...
The Three Great Essentials When Approaching Death: Original, Simplified & Explanatory Text 临终三大要: 原文·白话·详解
Complete Contents完整内容 [1]How To Use This Book如何运用此书 [2]Guidance Before Support-Chanting 助念前开示 [3]The Three Great Essentials When Approaching Death 临终三大要The First Great Essential...
Can Pure Land Practitioners Reach Buddhahood In This Lifetime?
Question: Is it possible to attain Buddhahood in a single lifetime, as in this very life? Answer: Many practitioners reach Pure Land via this process: First becoming very old and...
Can Deathbed Non-Vegetarians Reach Pure Land?
Question: If one heeds a doctor’s advice on the deathbed, to take medicine that contains meat ingredients, will this affect one’s ability to reach Pure Land? Answer:...
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Is Buddhahood Attainable In Amituofo’s Pure Land?
Question: Some say that Buddhahood is only attainable through Tantra practices. If so, and since most Pure Land practitioners do not practise Tantra, can they attain Buddhahood in...
Synopsis Of The Amitābha Sūtra
The Amitābha Sūtra was taught by Śākyamuni Buddha at Jetavana Monastery in Śrāvastī to an assembly of many renown great Arhat monks (who have attained personal liberation, each...
Why Repentance Is Required For The Evil To Reach Pure Land?
Question: For the very evil to reach Pure Land, other than the Three Provisions (Faith in Amita[bha] Buddha [Amituofo], Aspiration to reach his Pure Land and Practice of Nianfo:...
Does Mindfulness Of Buddha Neglect Our Parents?
Question: Some say that we should practise such that we think of our parents with every thought (念念想父母). However, this interferes with focus on Nianfo (念佛: mindfulness of the name...