Namo Guru Baya

The Amitabha Sutra.

Translated by Dr. Ron Epstein of The Buddhist Text Translation Society.

Namo! Homage to the Lotus Pool Assembly of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas As Vast As the Sea.

Sutra of the Buddha's Teaching On Amitabha.

Thus I have heard, at one time the Buddha dwelt at Shravasti, in the Jeta Grove in the Garden of the Benefactor of Orphans and the Forlorn, together with a gathering of Great Bhikshus, twelve-hundred fifty in all, all Great Arhats well-known to the assembly: Elders Shariputra, Mahamaudgalyayana, Mahakasyapa, Mahakatyayana, Mahakausthila, Revata, Suddhipanthaka, Nanda, Ananda, Rahula, Gavampati, Pindola-Bharadvaja, Kalodayin, Mahakaphina, Vakkula, Aniruddha, and others such as these, all Great Disciples, together with all the Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas: Manjushri, Prince of Dharma; Ajita Bodhisattva, Gandhastin Bodhisattva, Nityodukta Bodhisattva, and others such as these, all Great Bodhisattvas, and together with Shakra, Chief among Gods, and the numberless great multitudes from all the heavens.

At that time, the Buddha told the Elder Shariputra, from here, passing through hundreds of thousands of millions of Buddhalands to the West there is a world called Utmost Happiness.

In this land a Buddha called Amitabha right now teaches the Dharma.