English

The Compendium of Pure Land Buddhism

Preface In 2003, when I was only 10, I encountered Master Chin Kung’s Dharma channel by chance while playing with the remote. This lucky coincidence introduced my whole family to his teachings, and from then on, my parents and I became interested in Pure Land Buddhism. For the next several years, we donated, printed sutras, listened to his lecture recordings, and recited the Buddha’s name. In spring of 2014, I joined an online Buddhist course, instructed by a Princeton University professor, titled Buddhism and Modern Psychology. In the lively forum discussions with Buddhists of diverse traditions, as well as people who had just begun to study Buddhism, I wrote nearly a thousand posts sharing what I had learned in the past decade from Master Chin Kung. After the course finished, I became interested in translating rare Pure Land Buddhist texts into English, so that more people could benefit from the wisdom embodied within them. Towards the end of 2014, I started studying the Treatise of Response and Retribution in earnest, and after noticing that most translations of the text were at least a century old, decided to create a modern translation with commentary of the Treatise. From the

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