The Prayer of Pure Land

Author: Tao Qing Hsu

All Buddha’s virtue and love

Are given on pure land,

Widely and universally.

With kindness and sympathy,

Buddhas assimilate all sentient beings,

Teach them to awaken

and to get into the Buddha's knowledge and into understanding of Buddha. 

That is, the pure heart itself is the pure land of Buddha.

   

I wish that all sentient beings would know the pure land of Buddha,

And would dwell on bliss of the light of constant silence.

No coming, no going, and no arising are the pure land of bliss.

The pure heart itself is all pure land.

I wish to attain the Bodhi in heart,

To save all sentient beings

by the heart of sympathy and wisdom,    

to attain all great pure land,

And to repay all Buddha’s virtue and love.