文档介绍：佛说阿弥陀经要解
Commentary on the Amitabha Sutra
 
姚秦三藏法师鸠摩罗什译
清西有沙门蕅益智旭解
 
Translated by Dr. J. C. Cleary ---- Mind-Seal of Buddhas
Humbly Revised by Dr. Edwin Sha 沙行勉 based on my understanding of the scriptures.
Version: December 2008. This one has Essence and Introduction Parts.
原夫诸佛悯念群迷,随机施化。虽归元无二,而方便多门。然于一切方便之中,求其至直捷、至圆顿者,则莫若念佛求生净土。又于一切念佛法门之中,求其至简易、至稳当者,则莫若信愿专持名号。
The Buddhas took pity on all the deluded sentient beings, and taught them based on the opportunities and the various potentials of these deluded sentient beings. Although there is no difference in the ultimate goal as we take the Buddha’s teaching: ., returning ourselves to our pure mind, many different expedient methods are employed.
Among all these expedients, if we seek the most direct and fast, and the most perfect and sudden, none is as good as seeking birth in the Pure Land through Buddha-remembrance. The simplest and most reliable one among all the methods of Buddha-Remembrance is to develop faith and vows and to concentrate on reciting the Buddha-name.
是故净土三经并行于世,而古人独以《阿弥陀经》列为日课。岂非有见于持名一法,普被三根,摄事理以无遗,统宗教而无外,尤为不可思议也哉!
The Amitabha Sutra shows that the method of reciting the Buddha-name applied to people with different capacities. It passes the level of phenomena and the level of inner truth (noumenon), omitting nothing. It embraces all sections of Buddhism and Scriptures of Buddhism, and leaves nothing out. This method is indeed inconceivably great. This is the reason that the ancients took the Amitabha Sutra as their daily study guide, though three Pure Land scriptures (as Amitabha Sutra is one of them) have circulated side by side in the world over the generations.
古来注疏,代不乏人,世远就湮,所存无几。云栖和尚著为《疏钞》,广大精微。幽溪师伯述《圆中钞》,高深洪博。盖如日月中天,有目皆睹,特以文富义繁,边涯莫测,或致初机浅识,信愿难阶。
There have been many people ment upon and explain the Amitabha Sutra. Over time, many of mentaries have been oblivion and nowadays not many survive. Master Yun-Qi (Lian-Chi, 1535-1615) wrote his extensive and mentary and my senior f