Sutra of the Medicine Buddha: With an Introduction, Comments, and Prayers - Hsing Yun

Many are familiar with the Western Pure Land presided over by the Amitabha Buddha. Fewer know that there is a counterpart, the Eastern Pure Land, where the Medicine Buddha reigns. This Buddha (known in Sanskrit as Bhaisajyaguru), when he was still a bodhisattva, made twelve great vows and established the Eastern Pure Land as a place "free of every cause of suffering and furnished with everything necessary for the happiness, well-being, and liberation of its inhabitants." In this multifaceted volume, we encounter the Medicine Buddha in various ways: in prayers and vows, in a look at "Buddhism, Medicine, and Health," and of course in the Sutra itself. An added feature of this book is that the Sutra is presented not only in English translation, but also in Chinese characters along with Pinyin (Roman script) to indicate pronunciation. With this one volume, the reader can come to a greater understanding of this less-familiar but extremely important Buddha.Yun, Hsing is the author of 'Sutra of the Medicine Buddha: With an Introduction, Comments, and Prayers - Hsing Yun' with ISBN 9780971561298 and ISBN 097156129X.