淨土生無生論 1.2

1.2

I bow my head to the Muni of perfect wisdom, / The Great Guide of Measureless Life and Awakening, / And the Mahāyāna sūtras on the Land of Peace and Nurture spoken by him, / Of ultimate meaning, most definitive, supreme, perfect, and sudden. / To Mañjuśrī, Samantabhadra, and Avalokiteśvara, / Mahāsthāmaprāpta and the assembly of the pure great ocean, / To Aśvaghoṣa, Nāgārjuna, and Vasubandhu, / The patriarch of the Lotus Society at Mount Lu in this land, / Tiantai Zhiyi together with Fazhi, / And the masters who propagated the Dharma past and present: / I now take refuge in and pay homage to the Three Jewels. / Praying for their unseen assistance to inspire my consciousness, / I reverently gather the secret purports of the sūtras and treatises, / To elucidate the Pure Land's birth and non-birth, / Universally causing future [practitioners] to awaken to this gate, / Sever doubts, generate faith, and ascend to non-retrogression.