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How Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva Delivered Insects to Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land

“Bodhisattva Mahāsattva Avalokiteśvara then left the island of Siṃhala and went to a place where many hundreds of thousands of different kinds of insects lived within a cesspit in the great city of Vārāṇasī.

When Bodhisattva Mahāsattva Avalokiteśvara arrived there, he transformed himself into the form of a bee that made a buzzing sound that was heard by the insects as the words, ‘Namo buddhāya, namo dharmāya, namaḥ saṃghāya.’ The insects remembered the words namo buddhāya, namo dharmāya, namaḥ saṃghāya, and the thunderbolt of wisdom destroyed the mountain, which has twenty peaks, that is the view of the aggregates as a self, and they were then all reborn in the realm of Sukhāvatī as bodhisattvas named Sugandhamukha

After Bodhisattva Mahāsattva Avalokiteśvara had ripened those beings, he left the great city of Vārāṇasī.”

- Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra

Master Shandao’s Gatha of Praise of Amitabha Buddha 善导大师 《赞佛偈》

弥陀身色如金山，
Amitabha's body is like a golden mountain.

相好光明照十方；
The splendid lights from his marks illuminate the ten directions.

唯有念佛蒙光摄，
Only those who recite his name are embraced by such lights.

当知本愿最为强。
His Fundemental Vow is the most powerful.

六方如来舒舌证，
Tathagatas of the Six Directions extend their tongues to attest:

专称名号至西方；
Sentient beings will attain rebirth in Amitabha's Western Pure Land by reciting his name exclusively.

到彼华开闻妙法，
Once reborn there and the lotus blooms, one can listen to the wondrous Dharma teachings.

十地愿行自然彰。
The aspirations and practices of the ten bodhisattva grounds manifest naturally.