Suttas / sūtras · 2026

Infinite Life Sūtra · 佛說無量壽經

曹魏 康僧鎧譯

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.

Traditional Chinese source edition. Pinyin is machine-generated and has not received competent pronunciation review. English, Malay and a Sanskrit parallel are not supplied by this edition; no equivalents are invented.
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Sources & credits

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: 曹魏 康僧鎧譯: 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.
  • TRBS branding: Ti-Ratana Buddhist Society: Branding is separate from the open text licence.

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File integrity & release history

SHA-256: d130a95f97e7410cc8c9b7001719558dd4ccfb1fa670ca74aab6605b8d103183

Current edition: 2026-10-12.1. Source revision: ffc0d1cfb8635ef6f55982bb8d4d77d865c2126a6a14b5e6fb7444aef017763e.

  • 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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