The Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra (Sanskrit); simplified Chinese: 佛说阿弥陀经; traditional Chinese: 佛說阿彌陀經; pinyin: Fóshuō Āmítuójīng; Taisho no. 366; Vietnamese: Phật Thuyết Kinh A Di Đà) Also Known As ''Amitabha Sutra'' is one of the two Indian Mahayana sutras that describe Sukhavati, the pure landofAmitābha. This text is highly influential in East Asian Buddhism, including China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and listed as #366 in the Taisho Tripitaka.
The original Sanskrit versions of the Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra and Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra were translated into English by Luis GomezinThe Land of Bliss.
The Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra was translated from Sanskrit into Classical ChinesebyTripiṭaka master Kumārajīva in 402, but may have existed in India as early as the year 100 in Prakrit.[1]
The bulk of the Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, considerably shorter than other Pure Land sutras, consists of a discourse which Gautama Buddha gave at JetavanainŚrāvastī to his disciple Śāriputra. The talk concerned the wondrous adornments that await the righteous in the western pure land of Sukhāvatī as well as the beings that reside there, including the buddha Amitābha. The text also describes what one must do to be reborn there.