Buddhist Deity: Amitabha Religious Context
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Amitabha Texts 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha Toh 115.
The Display of the Pure Land of Sukhāvatī . Sukhāvatīvyūha, ’phags pa bde ba can gyi bkod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo. 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
Toh 677/864. The Incantation of Amitābha. སྣང་མཐའི་གཟུངས་སྔགས། · snang mtha'i gzungs sngags.
amitābhadhāraṇīmantra.
Toh 678/867. Calling Amitābha to Mind. སྣང་མཐའ་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པ། · snang mtha' rjes su dran pa.
Toh 679/851. The
Dhāraṇī Praising the Qualities of the Immeasurable One . ཡོན་ཏན་བསྔགས་པ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པའི་གཟུངས། · yon tan bsngags pa dpag tu med pa’i gzungs. Aparimitaguṇānuśāṁsadhāraṇī.
Toh 680/889. Essence of Sukhāvatī. བདེ་ལྡན་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ། · bde ldan gyi snying po.
Toh 865. [
Untitled Dhāraṇī of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas ]. The Collection The Kangyur Dhāraṇī Compendium of Dhāraṇīs. 1 page.
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