The Contemplation Sutra

The Contemplation Sutra - Join us as we read and discuss the Contemplation Sutra Resources: Inagaki, Hisao, trans.  The Sutra on the Visualization of the Buddha of Infinite Life Delivered by Sakyamuni Buddha.  BDK English Tripitaka Series.   (Berkeley:  Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2004), pp. 63-87.; The Three Pure Land Sutras, translated by Inagaki Hisao, Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2003.; Fujita, Kotatsu. “The Textual Origins of the Kuan wu-liang-shou fo ching.” In Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha, edited by Robert Buswell, Jr., 149-173. Honolulu:  University of Hawaii Press, 1990.  "Discourse on the Pure Land (浄土論)." (Vasubandhu's Commentary on the Pure Land from the extant Chinese text)  Trans. by David Matsumoto, Pacific World Journal, Third Series, 17 (2015) 23–42.; Pas, Julian.  Visions of Sukhavati: Shandao's commentary on the Kuan Wuliangshou-fo ching. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.  Payne, Richard. “The Five Contemplative Gates of Vasubandhu’s Rebirth Treatise as a Ritualized Visualization Practice,” in The Pure Land: History and Development, eds. James Foard, Michael Solomon, and Richard Payne (Berkeley: Regents of the University of California, 1996), 233–266. Tanaka, Kenneth K. The Dawn of Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Doctrine: Ching-ying Hui-yüan’s Commentary on the “Visualization Sutra.” Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.  Yamabe, Nobuyoshi. “The Sūtra on the Ocean-Like Samādhi of the Visualization of the Buddha: The Interfusion of the Chinese and Indian Cultures in Central Asia as Reflected in a Fifth Century Apocryphal Sūtra.” PhD diss., Yale University, 1999.; Paul Williams, “Trust, Self-Abandonment, and Devotion: the cults of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas,” in Mahāyāna Buddhism, the Doctrinal Foundations (Routledge, 2008), pp. 209-218. ; Fujita, Kōtatsu. “Pure Land Buddhism in India.” In The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development. Translated by Taitetsu Unno. Edited by James Foard,  Michael Solomon, and Richard K. Payne, 1–36. Berkeley: Regents of the University of California, 1996.; “Recollection of the Buddha,” in Chapter Seven of the Visuddhimagga: The Path of  Purification. Trans.  Bhikkhu Ñanamoli. (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 2010), pp. 186-209.; Harrison, Paul. “Buddhānusmriti in the Pratyutpanna-buddha sammukhāvasthita-samādhi sutra.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 6 (1978): 35-57.; Harrison, Paul; McRae, John, trans. The Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sutra, Berkeley, Calif.: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 1998.  Banzhou sanmei jing (佛說般舟三昧經): Earliest Chinese Translation of the Pratyutpanna-buddha-saṃmukhâvasthita-samādhi-sūtra, CBETA.; Harrison, Paul. 1998. “Women in the Pure Land: Some Reflections on the Textual Sources.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 26 (6): 553-572.; James, Dobbins, “Women, Sexuality, and Pure Land Buddhism,” in Letters of Eshnni:  Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan, (Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2004), pp. 74-106.; Starling, Jessica. “Neither Nun nor Laywoman: The Good Wives and Wise Mothers of Jōdo Shinshū Temples.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 40, no. 2 (2013): 277–301. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by tweeting to us @BrightBuddhism, emailing us at [email protected], or joining us on our discord server, Hidden Sangha https://discord.gg/tEwcVpu! Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host