Amitabha Rebirth Mantra (阿彌陀佛往生咒)

The pronunciation of the Amitabha Rebirth Mantra is as follow:

“Na-mo a-mi-doh-poh-ye, doh-ta-ga-doh-ye, doh-deh-ye-ta, a-mi-lee-doh-poh-pee, a-mi-lee-doh seh-dan-poh-pee, a-mi-lee-doh pek-ga-lan-deh, a-mi-lee-doh pek-ga-lan-doh, ga-mee-nee, ka-ka-nah, zhi-doh-ka-lee, so-ha.”

༄༅༎ན་མོ་ཨ་མི་ཏཱ་བྷཱ་ཡ།ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏཱ་ཡ།ཏ་དྱ་ཐ།ཨ་མི་ཏོ་དྡྷ་ཝ་ཨ་མྀཏ་སྀ་དྡྷཾ་བྷ་ཝ།ཨ་མྀཏ་ཝི་ཀྲཱ་ནྟེ།ཨ་མེཏ་ཝི་ཀྲཱ་ནྟ།གཱ་མི་ནི།ག་ག་ན།ཀཱི་རྟ་ཀརེ།སྭཱ་ཧཱ༎

In Vajrayana, Amitabha holds one of the five wisdoms of Vairocana Buddha. He was born in the Western Discriminatory Awareness Samadhi. In the Womb Realm, He is located at the west of the Central Eight Petal Hall. In the Diamond Realm, He is located at west of the Five Liberation Wheels. He represents the means of expedient wisdom of expedient in Tathagata.

Amitabha has three names. In Sutrayana, He is also called the Buddha of Infinite Life and the Buddha of Infinite Light. In Vajrayana, he is known as the Nectar King Tathagata. There are 13 other names of Amitabha as follows: Buddha of Infinite Life, Buddha of Infinite Light, Buddha of Boundless Light, Buddha of Unhindered Light, Buddha of Incomparable Light, Buddha of King Yama's Radiance, Buddha of Pure Light, Buddha of Joyful Light, Buddha of Wisdom Light, Buddha of Eternal Light, Buddha of Inconceivable Light, Buddha of Indescribable Light, and Buddha Transcending Sunlight and Moonlight.

Manjushri is the embodiment of Amitabha's wheel of true Dharma, whereas Yamantaka is the embodiment of Amitabha's wheel of injunction. Amitabha, Avalokitesvara, and Mahasthamaprapta comprise the "Three Saints of the West."

NOTE: anyone can recite this mantra!!! This version of Amitabha Rebirth Mantra contains the lineage from True Buddha School. For those who wish to receive the fullest amount of benefit from the recitation, consider taking refuge under H.H. Living Buddha Grandmaster Lian-Sheng.