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Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha

Amitābha's vows and the Land of Bliss they create.

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The Larger Sukhāvatī-vyūha, tr. F. Max Müller
F. Max Müller, 1894

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F. Max Müller's translation (1894), read from scans of the printed volume. Section 8 holds the 46 vows of Dharmākara. A few section numbers the scans did not show are run into the section before, and some names may appear garbled.

Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. · Source ↗

Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East 49 (1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced.

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