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Smaller Sukhāvatīvyūha

Smaller Sukhāvatīvyūha 8

English · F. Max Müller

Now what do you think, O Yariputra, for what reason is that Tathagata called Amitâyus? The length of life (€ayus), O Sariputra, of that Tathagata and of those men there is immeasurable (amita). Therefore is that Tathagata called Amitayus. And ten kalpas have passed, O 6ariputra, since that Tathdgata awoke to perfect knowledge.

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The Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, tr. F. Max MüllerTranslation · English · F. Max Müller, 1894

F. Max Müller's translation (1894), read from scans of the printed volume. Some names with diacritics may appear garbled (Siriputra for Sâriputra, for example).

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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