Pure Land Text Translations

Welcome to the "Pure Land texts translations" page. This page lists texts in an ongoing Pure Land text translation project: a compilation of translations of Pure Land texts (both sūtras and commentaries) by Shaku Shingan. Please also see the accompanying Pure Land Glossary.

For the purposes of this collection and to limit its scope, it is limited to texts related to the Pure Land of Amitābha rather than those of other buddhas such as the Medicine Buddha.

Translations from Sanskrit

1. The Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra

 Translations from Chinese

Infinite Life Sūtra

T360.
T361.
T362.
T363.
T364.

Commentaries on the Infinite Life Sūtra

T1745.
T1746.
T1747.
T1748.
T2759.
T2760.

Sūtra on the Contemplation of the Buddha of Infinite Life

T365.

Commentaries on the Sūtra on the Contemplation of the Buddha of Infinite Life

T1749.
T1750.
T1751.
T1752.
T1753.
T1754.

Amita Sūtra

T366.  The Amita Sūtra Spoken by the Buddha
T367.

Commentaries on the Amita Sūtra

T1755.
T1756.
T1757.
T1758.
T1759.
T1760.
T1761.
T1762.

Pure Land Dhāraṇī Sūtras

T368.
T369.
T370. The Sūtra of the Dhāraṇī of the King of the Sound of Amitābha's Drum
T371.
T372.
T373.

Esoteric Pure Land Sūtras

T929.
T930. The Method of Contemplating and Making Offerings to Amitāyus Tathāgata Vidhi
T931.
T932.
T933. The Nine Grades of Rebirth Amita Samādhi Dhāraṇī Sūtra
T934.
T935.
T936.
T397.

Pure Land Treatises

T1524.
T1819.

Japanese Sūtra Commentaries

T2207.
T2208A.
T2208B.
T2208C.
T2209.
T2210.

Jōdo & Jōdo Shin Shū Treatises

T2608.
...
T2679. The Essence of the Determination of the Settled Mind
T2680.

Original Works

In Praise of Infinite Life: Verses Inspired by the Jōdo Shinshū Liturgy

Translations of Modern Works

From Śākyamuni Tathāgata to Shinran Shōnin, by Takakusu Junjirō