Suttas / sūtras · 2026
Amitābha Sūtra · 佛說阿彌陀經
姚秦 鳩摩羅什譯
Complete main text of the identified Chinese source edition, with its prefatory material. Original XML retains the full critical apparatus. Optional tone-marked pinyin is a generated reading aid.
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Complete supplied text reflowed into semantic paragraphs. Source wording and credits retained; layout and navigation changed. Original edition links remain available.
CBETA Foundation electronic edition; Taishō source. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), with CBETA usage notice and source header retained. Noncommercial only. This reflow and pinyin addition are distributed on the same terms; TRBS branding is excluded.
- Text and translation: 姚秦 鳩摩羅什譯: CBETA Foundation electronic edition; Taishō source. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), with CBETA usage notice and source header retained. Noncommercial only. This reflow and pinyin addition are distributed on the same terms; TRBS branding is excluded.
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Current edition: 2026-10-12.1. Source revision: 93da2ce198913efcd8d7dbe47ea37bbeb22f11c6a02d0aea610151b29d4a9b7f.
- Added reading layers and explicit language coverage. Original source preserved; new translations labelled as study drafts. Restored omitted TEI lists where present.
- Updated reader fonts, reviewed source-line mappings and exact language coverage. Added original English/Malay Medicine Buddha and Usnisa Vijaya study translations, with phonetic blocks identified. Repaired leaked CBETA glyph metadata from retained XML.
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