Excerpts from Part Two, Sections 28 through 30 of The Larger Sutra on Amitāyus (Taishō Volume 12, Number 360).
Translated from the Chinese by Hisao Inagaki in collaboration with Harold Stewart.
Revised Second Edition, BDK America, Inc., 2003.
Part Two describes methods of attainment of birth in the Pure Land, the virtues of the bodhisattvas born there, moral teachings based on karma, the reality of evil acts and suffering, admonitions against doubt, visits of bodhisattvas to the Pure Land from other worlds, and the benefits gained by the audience.
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