Page 23 - 慈悲邮心佛邮展解说（二） Stamp Eplanation eBooklet 2

阿弥陀佛
BUDDHA

AMITABHA

Amitabha, (“Infinite Light”) also

called Amitayus (“Infinite Life”),

Japanese Amida, Chinese Emituo Fo,

in Mahayana Buddhism, and

particularly in the so-called Pure

Land sects, the great saviour

buddha. In the Sukhavati-vyuha-

sutras (the fundamental scriptures

of the Pure Land sects), many ages

ago a monk named Dharmakara

made a number of vows, the 18th of

which promised that, on his

attaining buddhahood, all who had

faith in him and who called upon his

name would be reborn in his

paradise and would reside there in

bliss until they had attained

enlightenment.