Khai Nguyen Buddhist temple

Excerpts from Part One, Sections 3 and 4 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.

In Part One, Amitāyus, as Dharmākara Bodhisattva, awakened aspiration for enlightenment, made the forty-eight Vows, attained buddhahood, and established his glorious buddha land.