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According to Infinite Life Sutra, or Larger Pure Land Sutra (無量壽經), Sakyamuni Buddha stated the practice of Bodhisattva Dharmakara in the journey of attaining Buddhahood.
Bodhisattva Dharmakara, having actually experienced the suffering of sentient beings, invested 5 eons studying all the Buddha lands. He made forty-eight vows to produce the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
He stated that he would not achieve Buddhahood unless his vows for an ideal pure land in which all beings will advance along the Buddhist course and never ever once again fall back into suffering were achieved.
Once his vows were achieved, Bodhisattva Dharmakara ended up being a Buddha by the nameof Amitabha Buddha He is now stating the Dharma in his Pure Land and assisting all who are genuinely genuine in their individual vows to be born-again there.
These are the 48 Great Vows that Dharmakara made prior to he rose to Buddhahood:
# 1— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, there ought to remain in my land a hell, a world of starving spirits or a world of animals, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 2— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to after death fall once again into 3 wicked worlds, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 3 — If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to not all be the color of pure gold, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 4 — If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to not all be of one look, and ought to there be any distinction in appeal, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 5— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to not keep in mind all their previous lives, not understanding even the occasions which took place throughout the previous hundred thousand kotis of nayutas of kalpas, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 6— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to not have the magnificent eye of seeing even a hundred thousand kotis of nayutas of the Buddha- lands, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 7— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to not have the magnificent ear of hearing the mentors of a minimum of a hundred thousand kotis of nayutas of Buddhas and ought to not keep in mind all of them, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 8 — If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to not have the professors of understanding the ideas of others, a minimum of those of all sentient beings residing in a hundred thousand kotis of nayutas of Buddha- lands, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 9— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to not have the supernatural power of taking a trip throughout one immediate, even beyond a hundred thousand kotis of nayutas of Buddha- lands, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 10— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to trigger ideas of self-attachment, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 11— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to not stay in the Definitely Assured State and invariably reach Nirvana, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 12— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, my light must be restricted, not able to light up a minimum of a hundred thousand kotis of nayutas of Buddha- lands, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 13— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, my life-span must be restricted, even to the level of hundred thousand kotis of nayutas of kalpas, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 14— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, the number of the shravavakas in my land might be understood, even if all the pratyekabuddhas and beings residing in this universe of a thousand million worlds ought to count them throughout a hundred thousand kalpas, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 15— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to have restricted life-span, other than when they want to reduce them in accordance with their initial vows, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 16 — If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to even hear of any misbehavior, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 17— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, numerous Buddhas in the land of the 10 quarters ought to not applaud and glorify my Name, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 18 — If, when I achieve Buddhahood, sentient beings in the lands of the 10 quarters who genuinely and happily delegate themselves to me, desire to be born in my land, and call my Name, even 10 times, ought to not be born there, might I not achieve bestEnlightenment Excluded, nevertheless, are those who dedicate the 5 biggest offenses, abuse the right Dharma.
# 19— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, sentient beings in the lands of the 10 quarters, who awaken goal for Enlightenment, do meritorious deeds and genuinely desire to be born in my land, ought to not, at their death, see me appear prior to them surrounded by plethora of sages, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 20— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, sentient beings in the lands of 10 quarters who, having actually heard my Name, focus their ideas on my land, do different meritorious deeds and genuinely move the benefits towards my land with a desire to be born there, ought to not ultimately satisfy their goal, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 21— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human and devas in my land ought to not all be enhanced with the thirty 2 physical qualities of a Great Man, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 22— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in the Buddha- lands of other quarters who visit my land must not eventually and invariably reach the Stage of Becoming a Buddha after another life, might I not achieve bestEnlightenment Excepted are those who want to teach and direct sentient beings in accordance with their initial vows. For they use the armour of fantastic vows, collect benefits, provide all beings from birth-and-death, see Buddha- lands to carry out the Bodhisattva practices, make offerings to Buddhas, Tathagatas, throughout the 10 quarters, inform vast sentient beings as many as the sands of the (*48 *) Ganges, and develop them in the greatest, bestEnlightenment Such Bodhisattvas go beyond the course of practice of the normal Bodhisattva phases, manifest the practices of all the Bodhisattva phases and really cultivate the virtues of Samantabhadra.
# 23— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in my land, in order to make offerings to Buddhas through my transcendent power, ought to not have the ability to reach numerous and countless kotis of nayuta of Buddha- lans in a brief a time as it requires to consume a meal, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 24— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in my land must not be able, as they want, to carry out meritorious acts of worshipping the Buddhas with the offerings of their option, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 25— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in my land must not have the ability to state the Dharma with the all-knowing knowledge, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 26— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, there ought to be any Bodhisattva in my land not endowed with the body of the Vajra- god Narayana, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 27— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, sentient beings ought to be able, even with the magnificent eye, to identify by Name and compute by number all the multitudes of symptoms attended to the human beings and devas in my land, which are resplendent and marvelous and have beautiful information beyond description, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 28— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in my land, even those with little shop of benefits, ought to not have the ability to see the Bodhi- tree which is and has many colors 4 million li in height, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 29— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in my land must not get eloquence and knowledge in reciting and promoting sutras and stating them, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 30— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, the knowledge and eloquence of Bodhisattvas in my land ought to be restricted, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 31— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, my land must not be resplendent, exposing in its light all the countless, impossible and numerous Buddha- lands, like images shown in a clear mirror, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 32— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, all the multitudes of symptoms in my land, from the ground to the sky, such as palaces, pavillions, trees, ponds and streams, ought to not be made up of both many treasures, which exceed in supreme quality anything worldwides of human and devas, and of a hundred thousand kinds of fragrant wood, whose scent pervades all the worlds of the 10 quarters, triggering all Bodhisattvas who notice it to carry out Buddhist practice, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 33— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, sentient beings in the impossible and countless Buddha- lands of the 10 quarters who have actually been touched by my light, ought to not feel peace and joy in their minds and bodies exceeding those of human beings and devas, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 34— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, sentient beings in the impossible and countless Buddha- lands of the 10 quarters who have actually heard my Name, ought to not get the Bodhisattva’s insight into the non-arising of all Dharmas and must not get different extensive dharanis, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 35— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, females in the impossible and countless Buddha- lands of the 10 quarters who, having actually heard my Name, rejoice in faith, awaken goal for the Enlightenment and dream to renounce womanhood, must after death be born-again once again as females, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 36— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in the impossible and countless Buddha- lands of the 10 quarters, who have actually heard my Name, ought to not, after completion of their lives, constantly carry out spiritual practices till they reach Buddhahood, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 37— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in the impossible and countless Buddha- lands of the 10 quarters, who having actually heard my Name, prostrate themselves on the ground to revere and praise me, rejoice in faith, and carry out Bodhisattva practices, ought to not be appreciated by all the devas and individuals of the world, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 38— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human beings and devas in my land ought to not get clothes, as quickly as such a desire occurs in their minds, and if the great bathrobes as recommended and applauded by the Buddhas ought to not be spontaneously attended to them to use, and if these clothing ought to require sewing, whitening, cleaning or coloring, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 39— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, human and devas in my land ought to not delight in joy and enjoyment similar to that of a monk who has actually tired all the positions, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 40— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in my land who want to see the countless marvelous Buddha- lands of the 10 quarters, ought to not have the ability to see all of them showed in the jewelled trees, simply as one sees one’s face showed in a clear mirror, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 41— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in the lands of the other quarters who hear my Name should, at any time prior to ending up being Buddhas, have actually hindered, insufficient or inferior sense organs, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 42— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in the lands of the other quarters who hear my Name ought to not all achieve the samadhi called ‘pure emancipation’ and, while home therein, without losing concentration, ought to not have the ability to make offerings in one immediate to impossible and countless Buddhas, World Honored One, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 42— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in the lands of the other quarters who hear my Name ought to not be born-again into honorable households after their death, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 43— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in the lands of the other quarters who hear my Name ought to not rejoice so considerably regarding dance and carry out the Bodhisattva practices and ought to not get shops of benefits, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 44— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in the lands of the other quarters who hear my Name ought to not all achieve the samadhi called ‘universal equality’ and, while home therein, ought to not constantly have the ability to see all the impossible and countless Tathagatas till those Bodhisattvas, too ended up being Buddhas, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 45— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in my land must not have the ability to hear spontaneously whatever mentors they might want, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 46 — If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in the lands of the other quarters who hear my Name ought to not immediately reach the Stage of Non- retrogression, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
# 47— If, when I achieve Buddhahood, Bodhisattvas in the lands of the other quarters who hear my Name ought to not immediately get the very first, 3rd and 2nd insights into the nature of Dharmas and securely abide in the Truths recognized by all the Buddhas, might I not achieve best Enlightenment.
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