Fó shuō dà chéng wú liàng shòu zhuāng yán jīng 佛說大乘無量壽莊嚴經
The Great-Vehicle Sūtra Spoken by the Buddha on the Adornment of Amitāyus by 法賢 (Fǎxián / Devaśānti, 譯)
About the work
This 3-fascicle text by 法賢 Fǎxián is the Northern-Sòng version of the Sukhāvatī-vyūha-sūtra. The five extant Chinese translations — T0360, T0361, T0362, the present T0363, and the [[KR6f0001|Mahā-ratnakūṭa assembly 5]] — provide a uniquely rich comparative apparatus for the textual history of the Larger Sukhāvatī.
Prefaces
No formal preface.
Abstract
The translation belongs to 法賢 Fǎxián’s Northern-Sòng imperial-bureau activity (982 – 1001 CE).
The Taishō text (T0363) is established on the standard apparatus.
Translations and research
- Inagaki, Hisao, tr. The Three Pure Land Sutras (1995).
- Gómez, Luis O., tr. The Land of Bliss (1996).