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A Guide to Pure Land Practice
by the Buddhist Scholar Cheng Wei-an
Translation with Commentary by
Dharma Master Suddhisukha
Taming the Monkey Mind
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Taming The
Monkey Mind
A Guide to Pure Land Practice
by the Buddhist scholar Cheng Wei-an
Translation with Commentary by
Dharma Master Suddhisukha
Sutra Translation Committee of the U. S. and Canada
New York – San Francisco – Niagara Falls – Toronto
May 2000
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The Chinese original of this translation,
Nien-fo ssu-shih-pa fa by the Buddhist
scholar Cheng Wei-an,
is
reprinted
(together with Elder Master Yin Kuang’s
work Ching-yeh Chin- liang) in: Ch’en
Hsi-yuan,
ed., Ching-t’u Ch’ieh-yao
[Essentials of Pure Land], Taiwan, 1968.
Cheng Wei-an’s text has been translated
into Vietnamese twice, under the title 48
Phap Niem Phat by Trinh Vi-Am. The
better known version was published in
1963 with a commentary by Dharma
Master Thich Tinh Lac (Skt: Suddhisukha).
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Contents
List of Contents
Note to the English Edition
x5
Acknowledgements
x6
Pure Land in a Nutshell
x7
Preface
10
Text: 48 Aspects of Buddha Recitation 12
Appendices:
The Bodhi Mind
x75
Introduction to Pure Land Buddhism 113
Notes
135
Index
147
Dedication of Merit
150
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Note to the English Edition
The present treatise, a Pure Land classic, is part of a
multilingual series on Pure Land Buddhism published
by the Sutra Translation Committee of the United States
and Canada. It deals specifically with the main practice
of the Pure Land School – Buddha Recitation – and
covers both the noumenal and phenomenal aspects of
that practice. The treatise is accompanied by the de-
tailed commentary of an Elder Master of the Zen and
Pure Land lineages. Readers not familiar with Pure
Land theory may wish to begin with Dr. J