Amitabha

Amit?bha (???? Ch. ?m?tu? f?, ????? Jp. Amida Nyorai), the Buddha of Limitless Light (????), also Amit?yus, the Buddha of Limitless Life (????), is the primary deity of the Pure Land school of Buddhism which developed and spread in China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan and has grown to become the largest sect in Buddhism. Amit?bha is believed to be a Buddha who possesses infinite meritorious qualities; who expounds the dharma in his pure paradise (Sukh?vat?) in the West, hence the name Western Pure Land.

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This concept, personified or otherwise, can be translated variously but is usually shortened to ?m?tu? f? in Chinese, Amida-butsu in Japanese, Amit'abul in Korean, and A-di-?? Ph?t in Vietnamese.

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Amitabha is undoubtedly the most well known and popular of the Five Wisdom Buddhas; the other four being Vairocana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, and Amogasiddhi.

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