Amitabha’s Connections

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Has aspect

• Chenrezig

  Chenrezig is the bodhisattva emanation of Amitabha Buddha, born from the red light of Amitabha's compassion to work ceaselessly for the liberation of all sentient beings in the six realms of existence.

• Padmasambhava

  Padmasambhava is an emanation of Amitabha Buddha, born from a lotus on Lake Dhanakosha to bring the vajrayana teachings to the human realm when Tibet stood ready to receive them.

Equivalent to

• Amida(Japanese),Amitabha(Buddhist),Amituofo(Chinese)

  Amitabha, Amituofo, Amida, and the Tibetan Amitabha are the Indian Buddhist, Chinese, Japanese, and Tibetan forms of the Buddha of Infinite Light, transmitted through the spread of Mahayana Buddhism across Asia.

Associated with

• Chenrezig

  Chenrezig vowed to liberate every sentient being from suffering, but when he beheld the countless masses still trapped in samsara, his head and body shattered from grief into a thousand pieces. Amitabha gathered the fragments and remade him with eleven heads to see all suffering and a thousand arms to reach every being in need.