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- Mahayana Buddhism
--- Sukhavati Pureland
--- Sukhavati Comparison (Mahayana & Vajrayana)
--- Buddha/Buddha Appearance
--- Buddhas, Who Are They? (Outline)
- Vajrayana Buddhism
--- Five Symbolic Buddhas
--- Tantric Buddhas (Outline)
- Confusions: Amitayus Buddha
- Others...

Videos:
- Amitabha Buddha, Part 1
- Amitabha Buddha, Part 2
- Amitabha-Amitayus Conflation (From HAR on Patreon)

Study Topics:
- Introduction
- Sutra Literature
- Meditational Deity
- Related Deities:
--- Kriya Tantra: Vajra Family
--- Five Symbolic Buddhas
--- Secondary Mandala Figures
--- Primary Related Figures

There are two main forms of Amitabha:
- Buddha Appearance Amitabha (Nirmanakaya)
- Peaceful Appearance Amitabha (Sambhogakaya)

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Source Texts:

Lotsawa House: 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.

(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).