Sukhavati
Sukhāvatī, atau Surga Barat, mengacu pada tanah murni barat dari Amitābha dalam Buddhisme Mahayana. Bahasa Sanskerta sukhavatī (sukhāvatī) adalah bentuk feminin dari sukhāvat ("penuh sukacita; penuh kebahagiaan"),[1][2] dari sukha ("kesenangan, kegembiraan") dan -vat ("penuh dengan").[3]
Referensi
- ^ "sukhavati". Merriam-Webster.
Sanskrit sukhavatī, sukhāvatī, from feminine of sukhavat, sukhāvat blissful, from sukha bliss, happiness
- ^ Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary. 1899.
sukhavatī, f. N. of the heaven of Buddha Amitābha (see under sukhā-vat [...] possessing ease or comfort, full of joy or pleasure
- ^ "vat". Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit.
Bacaan lebih lanjut
- Inagaki, Hisao, trans. (2003), The Three Pure Land Sutras (PDF), Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, ISBN 1-886439-18-4, Archived from the original on May 12, 2014
- Tanaka, Kenneth K. (1987). Where is the Pure Land?: Controversy in Chinese Buddhism on the Nature of Pure Land, Pacific World Journal (New Series) 3, 36-45
- Halkias, Georgios (2013). Luminous Bliss: a Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet. With an Annotated Translation and Critical Analysis of the Orgyen-ling golden short Sukhāvatīvyūha-sūtra. University of Hawai‘i Press.
Pranala luar
- The Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, the Amitabha Sutra
- Dol-po-pa’s: A Prayer for Birth in Sukhāvatī