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Amida
Sutra

O Shariputra,
even as I praise


Amida Buddha's inconceivable,


Immeasurable roots of goodness, in


The Eastern Quarter there exist as well:


Immovable Buddha


Sumeru-Form Buddha


Great Sumeru Buddha


Wonderful Sound Buddha


The Southern Quarter shines with Buddhas too:


Sun-Moon-Lamp Buddha


Name Hearing Light Buddha


Great Flame-Shoulder Buddha


Sumeru Lamp Buddha


Limitless Energetic Striving Buddha


The Western Quarter shines with Buddhas too:


Limitless Life Buddha


Limitless Form Buddha


Great Light Buddha


Great Brightness Buddha


Treasure Form Buddha


Pure Light Buddha


The Northern Quarter shines with Buddhas too:


Flame Shoulder Buddha


Most Excellent Sound Buddha


Unstoppable Buddha


Sun-Birth Buddha


Pure Brightness Buddha


The Upper Quarter shines with Buddhas too:


Brahma Sound Buddha


Abode King Buddha


Perfume Arising Buddha


Great Flaming Shoulders Buddha


Mixed Color Treasure Wreath Body Buddha


Sala King Tree Buddha


Treasure Flower Virtue Buddha


Seeking All Principles Buddha


Like Sumeru Mountain Buddha


The Lower Quarter shines with Buddhas too:


Lion Buddha


Name Hearing Buddha


Name Light Buddha


Dharma Buddha


Law Flag Buddha


Law Keeping Buddha


They are as numerous as Ganges sands


And each, in his own world, extends his tongue


Until it universally expounds


Across the thousands of great thousand worlds


The truth which is contained in these words:


"All sentient beings should believe the words


This sutra here reveals, extolling and


Explaining all the virtues thought of and


Protected by the Buddhas everywhere."















"They all attain, not retrogressing, to

Complete and perfect Bodhi. It's because

Of this, o Shariputra, that you should

Believe, accept and honor what is preached

By many Buddhas in their many worlds.

If, Shariputra, there are people who

Aroused the wish, arouse the wish right now

Or shall arouse the wish to be reborn

In Highest Happiness, they are, in truth,

Reborn into that realm of Perfect Peace,

Or are reborn into Amida's World,

Or shall be soon reborn into that world.

Not retrogressing, they attain profound

Serene and unsurpassed enlightenment.

O Shariputra, therefore, all good men

Or women having faith shall thus arouse

The wish for birth in Buddha'a Highest World."
-Amida Sutra