Who is Amitabha Buddha?VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.

Many Buddhists still do not understand Buddha Amitabha and often confuse Amitabha Buddha and Shakyamuni Buddha. The following article will help people better understand Him.

 Who is Amitabha Buddha?

Amitabha Buddha is a king in legend according to the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, who renounced his kingdom to become a Buddhist monk and named Dharmakara, which means "Store the Dharma" . Many Buddhists of the Pure Land school often recite "Namo Amitabha Buddha" to rely on themselves to Amitabha Buddha to lead them to the Western Realm of the Ultimate Bliss after death.

According to the scriptures, Amitabha Buddha possesses infinite merits arising from good deeds without knowing many previous lives. "Amitabha" can be translated as "Infinite Light" so Amitabha Buddha is often called "Light Buddha".

Inspired by the teachings of Lokesvaraja Buddha, Amitabha Buddha made 48 great vows to save sentient beings. The 18th oath, which is the foundation of the Pure Land: "If after attaining Buddhahood, all sentient beings are sincere and faithful to be reborn in my land, reciting my name 10 times without being born. out there, then I can't achieve perfect enlightenment. ”

Since then, Amitabha Buddha after 5 years of cultivation, has finally achieved supreme enlightenment. This means that his compassionate and great oath has now become a reality, the Western Paradise of the Bliss (Pure Land - Sukhavati) has been established, the suffering of sentient beings will be liberated if they have faith to call His name.

History of Amitabha Buddha

According to the Lotus, in ancient times, into a great life called Thien Tri, the kingdom of Lam's title, there was a transfer of the Holy King who was Avoiding Mindfulness, dominating the four continents: One is Dong Thang Shenzhou, two Nam Thien Bo Chau, the third is Tay Nguu Chau, four are Bac Cau Chau.

The King of Avoiding Mindfulness has 32 good generals like Buddha, using gentle dharma to cultivate the philosophy of nationalism. The Cross of good people is rewarded with great respect, and the Cross of the Cross is punished with thunder like thunder and thunder, removing him from the life community.

By the time many people lived in evil, the King of Avoiding Mindfulness and his courtiers did not appear again, because he did not want to destroy all the bad people, so that the law of cause and effect was sufficiently enough to teach them to experience.

According to the commentary, the 12th, when the King Avoided Mindfulness, the life of mankind was eighty years old, pure ecological environment, fertile soil, beautiful plants, abundant material.

In the court of the King of Uncivilable King Bao Hai, Pham Chi was very adept at astronomy and admired Buddhism (Bao Hai was a precursor to Sakyamuni Buddha). newly born, many jewels are given precious jewels, so they are named Bao Tibet.

Bao Tang realized that the mind and body of the world are impermanent, so please ask the parents to renounce the Buddha. Cultivating the spiritual life soon after the Bao Tang monk witnesses the supreme result of the righteous sense of the Buddha of the Tathagata Tathagata.

The name of the good reputation of the Buddha Sutra comes to the King of Avoiding Mindfulness, the King also invites the Buddha and the monks enter the offerings to the three-month period of attentive attentions.

At that time, the God of Bao Hai, after hearing the sacred evidence of the fruit of the Tu da, became a layman of the Bodhisattva, on the occasion of setting the stage to discuss the nation's completion, with the King of Avoiding Mindfulness: "The altar of offerings the fruit of the blessed and beautiful being, only in the impermanent general, transforms like the breeze of clouds.

Due to the karma of being blessed with the righteousness of the previous life, it is the merit of the noble person who is second to none, convenient to help the life to be wise, full of rice, warm clothes; but the depth of psychological insecurity and the people still insecure because of the aging of the sickness. Only by spreading the Bodhi mind, the Bodhisattva Bodhisattva's Bodhisattva practice is very happy for the whole people. ”

The King of Avoiding Mindfulness heard beautiful ideas, arranged the main dynasty, came to the garden of matches to worship the Buddha to increase the hearing. Arriving at the place where the Sutra of the Tathagata entered, it was clear to see the ten directions of the Pure Land of the Buddhas for them to contemplate.

At the same time, the King of Avoiding Mindfulness also imported them, seeing that his people are not as bright as the Buddha's people, wisdom is also less, the national level of the palace is crude with carved stone.

Meanwhile, the Buddha's palace is made of seven treasures that are saved, far away, chakras, agate, corals, amber ... Especially there is no Buddha realm with poor people, hospitals, graveyards.

In the afternoon to the minister of Bao Hai from the King's kings to the private mansion, the King of the Recollection of the Recollection of the Mind during the night without thinking, thinking about withdrawing the essence of the Buddha countries as a great vow to build his Buddha country. Early in the morning, the King went to worship Buddha Bao Tang to prove the Bodhi vow, although hundreds of thousands of miserable lives were difficult to make decree. He gave 48 great vows.

Buddha Amitabha, the previous life is the son of the Great Wisdom Wins Tathagata. He used merit to teach the Dharma of the Dharma to the sentient beings, so he became the Buddha's name, Amitabha, in the West of the Bliss.

Wanting this realm of beings to overcome the miserable life of suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death, Shakyamuni Buddha clearly stated the virtue of the wish of Amitabha Buddha. At the same time, the legal practice of Pure Land practice is very easy. From upstream intellectuals to civilians, if anyone is a monk, he will be reborn.

Characteristic shape of Amitabha Buddha:

Amitabha Buddha on the head has clusters of spiral hair, eyes looking down, mouth with a smile of salvation, wearing a red robes (symbolizing the color of the western sunset).

Hand posture of Amitabha Buddha:

Amitabha Buddha may be in a standing posture, his hands pressing the sacred form - that is, the hand on his shoulder, pointing up, his left hand across his belly, pointing down, his palms facing forward; In each hand, the index finger and thumb touch each other as a circle.

Amitabha Buddha can also sit cross-legged on the lotus floor, his hand pressed to meditate (his hand is across his abdomen, the back of his right hand lies on the left palm, two thumbs touch each other). On the hand of Buddha can hold a bowl, a sign for the patriarch.

Characters accompanying Amitabha Buddha are often illustrated with the two Bodhisattvas of Quan The Am (on the left, holding the branches and orange vases) and Dai The Chi (on the right, holding the blue lotus). END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.3/3/2019.