Amitābha, (1) (1811)

Amitābha, (1)
Entry 1811, Page 63, Col. 2

(amitABa, amitABa)
Amitābha, (1)¦ n. of the Buddha who presides over the western paradise Sukhāvatī (lokadhātu); also known as Amitāyu(s), Amitaprabha, Amitanātha, and doubt- less intended by the Mmk names Amitāyu(rjñāna)- viniścayarājendra (or the like), even tho he is once depicted separately in a painting centering about that personage (Mmk 305.12--13, cf. 304.25). See these names separately. The two commonest names are Amitābha and Amitāyus, and they are as a rule quite equivalent and interchangeable; see notably Sukh 62.13--14; 95.15 and 20. Often Sukhāvatī is mentioned with him. He is the fourth of the ‘transcendent’ Buddhas, Dharmas 3; Mvy 85. Other occurrences: Suv 2.5; Bhad 49, 57, 59, 62; Śikṣ 175.6; Kv 18.7; 21.8 etc.; Mmk 42.16; 426.7; Gv 82.5; Laṅk 283.7; Sukh 1.6; 28.10 etc.; Sādh 16.10 etc.; (2) n. of a Bodhisattva: Gv 442.22 (one of a long list, and hardly to be identified with the Buddha A.).

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