Amitabha Triple Contemplation Dharma Service

The Amitabha Triple Contemplation Service: Pathway to Enlightenment and Liberation

The Amitabha Triple Contemplation Service is a surpassing way of cultivation in the Pure Land School. This liturgy was composed and promoted by National Grand Master (advisor to the emperor) Chung Fung of the Yuan Dynasty with the aim to benefit both the living and the deceased. It admonishes the living to practice the Pure Land way of reciting the Buddha’s name in order to be liberated from this world, and at the same time follow Amitabha Buddha’s vows to exhort the deceased to be reborn in the Western World of Ultimate Bliss by delivering them from the vast ocean of karma and the sufferings of transmigration eternally. 　

There are two interpretations as to the meaning of “thrice”: (1) the three divisions of the day, which are dawn, midday, and sunset. (2) The three periods of Buddha’s teachings,…