檢視 Amitabha 阿彌陀佛／無量光佛的原始碼

[[Image:Amitabha.jpg|frame|Amitabha from a [[thangka]] in the personal collection of [[Sogyal Rinpoche]]]]
'''Amitabha''' (Skt. ''Amitābha''; Tib. [[འོད་དཔག་མེད་]], ''Öpamé'' or སྣང་བ་མཐའ་ཡས་, ''Nangwa Tayé''; [[Wyl.]] ''snang ba mtha' yas'') — the Buddha of Boundless Light, belonging to the [[lotus family]] (one of the [[five buddha families]]). The ''[[Amitabhavyuha Sutra]]'' tells us that many aeons ago, as the monk Dharmakara, he generated [[bodhichitta]] in the presence of the Buddha Lokeshvara. At that time, he made fifty-one vows to lead all beings to his pure realm of [[Sukhavati]].

On a deeper level, as [[Sogyal Rinpoche]] says, Amitabha "represents our pure nature and symbolizes the transmutation of desire, the predominant emotion of the human realm. More intrinsically, Amitabha is the limitless, luminous nature of our mind."

==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], Sydney, 22 February 2011. 

==Internal Links==
*[[Brief Amitabha Mönlam]]
*[[Sukhavati]]

[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]]